Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

ISBN: 0062218344

Author: Levitt, Steven D.

Condition: New

In this major national bestseller and follow-up to Superfreakonomics, the Freakonomics authors are back to take us behind the phenomenon and unveil the tools for thinking like a freak.With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all how to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally. In Think Like A Freak, they offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. The topics range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, youll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying theyre from Nigeria.Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing-and so much fun to read.This paperback edition includes a new Q&A with the authors.

• First put away your moral compass-because it�s hard to see a problem clearly if you�ve already decided what to do about it.| Learn to say �I don�t know�-for until you can admit what you don�t yet know it�s virtually impossible to learn what you need to.| Think like a child-because you�ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions.| Take a master class in incentives-because for better or worse incentives rule our world.| Learn to persuade people who don�t want to be persuaded-because being right is rarely enough to carry the day.| Learn to appreciate the upside of quitting-because you can�t solve tomorrow�s problem if you aren�t willing to abandon today�s dud.