Publications

Think Like a Freak

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
2014
Updated
2015
Full Name
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Think Like a Freak teaches readers how to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally. It offers 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, you’ll 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 they’re from Nigeria.

“Utterly captivating.”

— Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Blink, The Tipping Point, and David and Goliath


“Over nine entertaining chapters [Levitt and Dubner] demonstrate how not to fall into hackneyed approaches to solving problems and concretely illustrate how to reframe questions.”

— New York Daily News


“Compelling and fun.”

— New York Post


“This book will change your life.”

— Daily Express (London)


“Good ideas... expressed with panache.”

— Financial Times


“An interesting and thought-provoking read.”

— The Horn


“Their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally --- to think, that is, like a Freak.”

— Bookreporter.com