Summary, Key Ideas and Facts: Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

by I.K. Mullins

This is not Steven D. Levitt's and Stephen J. Dubner's book. This is a summary of Steven D. Levitt's and Stephen J. Dubner's book. It provides a detailed and concise description of their books' content, key ideas and facts. In Think Like a Freak, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner advice how to master the economic way of thinking described in their previous bestsellers. To say it briefly, thinking like a Freak means being willing to think outside the box. The book offers advice, which may be useful to those who want to make better decisions and achieve better results when dealing with minor issues or major worldwide reforms. The kind of thinking, which is promoted in the book, is inspired by the economic approach. The economic approach is both simpler and broader than merely focusing on the economy. It claims to be independent of ideology, and it uses data in order to understand how the world works, how incentives thrive, how resources are distributed, and what prevents people from getting those resources. --------------------- Book summaries published by Brief, Concise and to the Point Publishing are designed to keep readers up to date and knowledgeable regarding new and significant books. Book summaries are perfect for people, especially busy professionals, who do not have the time to read books in their entirety. The main benefits of reading book summaries published by Brief, Concise and to the Point Publishing: 1. Our book summaries help you save your time and money. Instead of spending days or even weeks reading an important book, simply take one or two hours to read our concise book summary. It will introduce you to the book's primary content, ideas, arguments and facts. It will also help you decide whether it is worthwhile to invest your time and money in the entire book. 2. Our book summaries are truly comprehensive. Some other publishers' superficial book summaries do not exceed 15 to 20 pages, although they are presented as lengthy summaries. Our extensive book summaries include all the essential information you need to know. 3. Our books help you retain more information pertaining to the book's content. Academic studies have proven that people retain more of what they read in a summary as compared with what they remember after reading a book. Please note that according to the U.S. copyright law, the ideas and facts presented in books, as well as book titles, are not protected by copyright law.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

72 pages, Paperback

First published May 23, 2014

Reviews

[Ell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed, Think Like A Freak. It was written in an engaging manner and frequently piqued my curiosity. It is an easy read, which is sometimes very welcome in my busy life. The premise of the book is to showcase the benefits of looking at situations differently than one might normally look at them. It builds on the author's two previous books which propose that incentives are the cornerstone of modern life and that conventional wisdom is often flawed and that correlation does not equal causality. Although the authors describe the book as prescriptive, I am not so sure I agree that it is. It is often repetitive at times and I feel this might be because the author's are trying to hit their points home a little too tediously. Still, it was an informative and engaging read. I particularly enjoyed the discussions on incentives and persuasion.

[Brent Stratton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoy books that show a different way to think and view the world

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thomas Malthus led the discipline of Economics to be termed the 'dismal science.' For whatever reason, many students at college seem to dread a class in Economics, thinking it boring, or just to hard to understand. Of course I am biased as I was an Economics Education major in school. But Levitt and Dubner continue to reveal how Economic can, in fact, be fun and so very applicable to modern daily life. Be it pondering the breaking of world records of hot dog eating, to the methodology of David Lee Roth, and even how the wisdom of King Solomon, this book takes a very understandable and insightful look at economic thinking - one that goes beyond charts and graphs - and how it truly shapes our perceptions of reality. Most importantly, this book reveals how we can, by learning to think differently about economics, overcome many of our modern myths about incentives and human motivation, and truly forge new levels of human creativity and productivity.

With humor, and insight into modern daily life, this book is a wonderful read and one I would highly recommend.

[Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating

[Frank Mcgeough · Rating 1 out of 5]

Amazingly uninteresting story of two guy's self-promotion and how successful they've been getting people to listen to them.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really interesting. The authors caused me to rethink my approach to dealing with coworkers, especially in group settings and with key decision makers.

[Eileen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of the same material covered in the first two books and the podcasts, with a few new gems thrown in. A fun read/listen but was glad I got this from the library instead of buying my own copy.

[Christine Wahl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not what I imagined it would be. Will read the other books in series. Also, podcasts.