An edition of Think Like a Freak
(2014)
Think like a freak
the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain
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by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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In this followup to the book Freakonomics the authors offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. 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. Whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms, you'll learn to put away your moral compass, think like a child, and discover how incentives rule our world.
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carpal tunnel syndrome, feedback, ultracrepidarianism, school reform, ulcer, Romanian Witches, smile train, financial incentives, Cognitive psychology, Problem solving, Personal development, Large type books, Soziales Handeln, Psychology, Cognition, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Alltag, Wirtschaftsphilosophie, Creative thinking, Wirtschaftssoziologie, Thought and thinking, Prise de décision (Relations humaines), Decision taking (Human relations), Développement d'aptitudes, Skills development, Aspects psychologiques, Psychological aspects, Sciences cognitives, Cognitive sciences, Decision making, Critical thinking, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2014-06-01, New York Times bestseller, Thinking, Pensée, Problem Solving, nyt:business-books=2015-09-13, Solución de problemas, Pensamiento creativo, Cognición, Tänkande, ProblemlösningPeople
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Table of Contents
What does it mean to think like a freak?: An endless supply of fascinating questions ; The pros and cons of breast-feeding, fracking, and virtual currencies ; There is no magic Freakonomics tool ; Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger ; How to win the World Cup ; Private benefits vs. the greater good ; Thinking with a different set of muscles ; Are married people happy or do happy people marry? ; Get famous by thinking just once or twice a week ; Our disastrous meeting with the future prime minister
The three hardest words in the English language: Why is "I don't know" so hard to say? ; Sure, kids make up answers but why do we? ; Who believes in the devil? ; And who believes 9/11 was an inside job? ; "Entrepreneurs of error" ; Why measuring cause-and-effect is so hard ; The folly of prediction ; Are your predictions better than a dart-throwing chimp? ; The Internet's economic impact will be "no greater than the fax machine's" ; "Ultracrepidarianism" ; The cost of pretending to know more than you do ; How should bad predictions be punished? ; The Romanian witch hunt ; The first step in solving problems: put away your moral compass ; Why suicide rises with quality of life, and how little we know about suicide ; Feedback is the key to all learning ; How bad were the first loaves of bread? ; Don't leave experimentation to the scientists ; Does more expensive wine taste better?
What's your problem?: If you ask the wrong question, you'll surely get the wrong answer ; What does "school reform" really mean? ; Why do American kids know less than kids from Estonia? ; Maybe it's the parents' fault! ; The amazing true story of Takeru Kobayashi, hot-dog-eating champion ; Fifty hot dogs in twelve minutes! ; So how did he do it? ; And why was he so much better than everyone else? ; "To eat quickly is not very good manners" ; The Solomon Method ; Endless experimentation in pursuit of excellence ; Arrested! ; How to redefine the problem you are trying to solve ; The brain is the critical organ ; How to ignore artificial barriers ; Can you do 20 push-ups?
Like a bad dye job, the truth is in the roots: A bucket of cash will not cure poverty and a planeload of food will not cure famine ; How to find the root cause of a problem ; Revisiting the abortion-crime link ; What does Martin Luther have to do with the German economy? ; How the "Scramble for Africa" created lasting strife ; Why did slave traders lick the skin of the slaves they bought? ; Medicine vs. folklore ; Consider the ulcer ; The first blockbuster drugs ; Why did the young doctor swallow a batch of dangerous bacteria? ; Talk about gastric upset! ; The universe that lives in our gut ; The power of poop
Think like a child: How to have good ideas ; The power of thinking small ; Smarter kids at $15 a pop ; Don't be afraid of the obvious ; 1.6 million of anything is a lot ; Don't be seduced by complexity ; What to look for in a junkyard ; The human body is just a machine ; Freaks just want to have fun ; Is a "no-lose lottery" the answer to our low savings rate? ; Gambling meets charity ; Why kids figure out magic tricks better than adults ; "You'd think scientists would be hard to dupe" ; How to smuggle childlike instincts across the adult border
Like giving candy to a baby: It's the incentives, stupid! ; A girl, a bag of candy, and a toilet ; What financial incentives can and can't do ; The giant milk necklace ; Cash for grades ; With financial incentives, size matters ; How to determine someone's true incentives ; Riding the herd mentality ; Why are moral incentives so weak? ; Let's steal some petrified wood! ; One of the most radical ideas in the history of philanthropy ; "The most dysfunctional $300 billion industry in the world" ; A one-night stand for charitable donors ; How to change the frame of a relationship ; Ping-Pong diplomacy and selling shoes ; "You guys are just the best!" ; The customer is a human wallet ; When incentives backfire ; The "cobra effect" ; Why treating people with decency is a good idea
What do King Solomon and David Lee Roth have in common?: A pair of nice, Jewish, game-theory-loving boys ; "Fetch me a sword!" ; What the brown M&M's were really about ; Teach your garden to weed itself ; Did medieval "ordeals" of boiling water really work? ; You too can play God once in a while ; Why are college applications so much longer than job applications? ; Zappos and "The Offer" ; The secret bullet factory's warm-beer alarm ; Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria? ; The cost of false alarms and other false positives ; Will all the gullible people please come forward? ; How to trick a terrorist into letting you know he's a terrorist
How to persuade people who don't want to be persuaded : First, understand how hard this will be ; Why are better-educated people more extremist? ; Logic and fact are no match for ideology ; The consumer has the only vote that counts ; Don't pretend your argument is perfect ; How many lives would a driverless car save? ; Keep the insults to yourself ; Why you should tell stories ; Is eating fat really so bad? ; The Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure ; What is the Bible "about"? ; The Ten Commandments versus The Brady Bunch
The upside of quitting: Winston Churchill was right, and wrong ; The sunk-cost fallacy and opportunity cost ; You can't solve tomorrow's problem if you won't abandon today's dud ; Celebrating failure with a party and cake ; Why the flagship Chinese store did not open on time ; Were the Challenger's O-rings bound to fail? ; Learn how you might fail without going to the trouble of failing ; The $1 million question: "when to struggle and when to quit" ; Would you let a coin toss decide your future? ; "Should I quit the Mormon faith?" ; Growing a beard will not make you happy ; But ditching your girlfriend might ; Why Dubner and Levitt are so fond of quitting ; This whole book was about "letting go" ; And now it's your turn.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-254) and index.
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