Think like a freak is another great book from the authors of Freakonomics. In this book, they are offering to retrain your brain. They emphasize the importance of looking at situations differently, asking the right questions and doing what most people fail to do: to think.
This self-help book from the authors of freakonomics emphasizes the importance of experimenting. Of being willing to admitting what you don't know and having the courage not only to ask the right questions, but to also experiment and then look at the feedback objectively.
These are a compilation of quotes from the book. These inspirational quotes are from the first, second and third chapter of the book, by Steven D Levvit and Stephen J Dubner: Think Like A Freak - The Authors of Freakonomics Offer To Retrain Your Brain
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3. #2
If the consequences of pretending to
know can be so damaging, why do
people keep doing it? That’s easy: in
most cases, the cost of saying “I
don’t know” is higher than the cost
of being wrong—at least for the
individual.
4. #3
When it comes to solving
problems, one of the best ways
to start is by putting away your
moral compass.
6. #5
A barrier to thinking like
a Freak is that most
people are too busy to
rethink the way they
think—or to even spend
much time thinking at
all.
7. #6
The miracle of a good
experiment is that in one
simple cut, you can
eliminate all the
complexity that makes it
so hard to determine
cause and effect.
8. #7
The impulse to investigate
can only be set free if you
stop pretending to know
answers that you don’t.
9. #8
There is nothing like the
sheer power of numbers to
scrub away layers of
confusion and
contradiction, especially
with emotional, hot-button
topics.
10. #9
Incentives are the cornerstone of
modern life. And understanding
them—or, often, deciphering them
—is the key to understanding a
problem, and how it might be
solved.
11. #10
Whatever problem you’re trying to
solve, make sure you’re not just
attacking the noisy part of the
problem that happens to capture
your attention... it’s incredibly
important to properly define the
problem—or, better yet, redefine
the problem.