Think Like a Freak: The Authors of #Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your #Brain #self-help #improvement #books

By Steven D. Levitt

1. Popular Highlights

   1. When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
   2. The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
   3. A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.
   4. Sometimes in life, going straight up the middle is the boldest move of all.
   5.  “Prediction,” as Niels Bohr liked to say, “is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”