Think Like a Freak (Review and Analysis of Levitt and Dubner's Book)
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This complete summary of the ideas from Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's book "Think Like A Freak" states how economic theories can also be applied to problems in society. This is the concept of Freakonomics. Freakonomics basically means thinking for yourself and acknowledging the facts. Learning to ‘think like a freak’ means you can tackle the difficult problems that other people ignore. According to Levitt and Dubner, there are eight steps to ‘thinking like a freak’, such as putting away your moral compass, admitting what you don't know and thinking like a child. By applying these principles to your own thinking, you will be ready to tackle bigger problems strategically.
Added-value of this summary:
• Save time
• Learn how to ‘think like a freak’
• Tackle the really difficult problems
To learn more, read “Think Like A Freak” and follow the eight steps to start solving real problems!
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Freakanomics
is both a well-known expression and an ideology which was introduced to the world in two bestsellers titled Freakanomics (2005) and SuperFreakanomics (2009). These two books have now sold more than 7 million copies worldwide in 35 languages.
The essence of Freakanomics is that the theories economists develop and use can be applied to problems in society at large with equal relevance and effectiveness. Economists insist on letting the data speak for itself rather than applying their own hunches, preferences or ideologies.
Put another way, Freakanomics is the art and science of thinking for yourself and letting the facts speak for themselves. I f you can apply Freakanomics consistently well – or in other words if you can learn to Think Like a Freak
– you stand a better chance of solving the really difficult problems other people generally ignore and hope they will go away.
"The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger. Furthermore, it takes a lot of time to track down, organize, and analyze the data to answer even one small question well. We’d like to bury the idea that there’s a right way and a wrong way, a smart way and a foolish way, a red way and a blue way. The modern world demands that we all think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally; that we think from a different angle, with a different set of muscles, with