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gmuguruza 's review for:
Think Like a Freak
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Ufff what to do with this book.
It starts alright, they are trying to make the point of thinking differently and more data based instead of falling for multiple biases that we hold. They give multiple examples of people who have succeeded by thinking outside the box, and I agree that storytelling is probably the best way of convincing people, it's entertaining and you learn something.
However, the second part of the book becomes tedious. A bit cliché with "think like a child" and "don't be afraid of quitting!", they are contextless notions and anecdotal stories. It's a nice shallow introduction to fun concepts like the sunk-cost fallacy (that still today I fail to interiorize, for which the book was not of much help) but probably you've already heard about most of the stories in the book. This might as well be that the book has been around for quite some time and it's already in our collective imagery.
Well, nice quick read but bitter self-improvement flavour.
It starts alright, they are trying to make the point of thinking differently and more data based instead of falling for multiple biases that we hold. They give multiple examples of people who have succeeded by thinking outside the box, and I agree that storytelling is probably the best way of convincing people, it's entertaining and you learn something.
However, the second part of the book becomes tedious. A bit cliché with "think like a child" and "don't be afraid of quitting!", they are contextless notions and anecdotal stories. It's a nice shallow introduction to fun concepts like the sunk-cost fallacy (that still today I fail to interiorize, for which the book was not of much help) but probably you've already heard about most of the stories in the book. This might as well be that the book has been around for quite some time and it's already in our collective imagery.
Well, nice quick read but bitter self-improvement flavour.