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"Whether you're interested in small lifehacks or significant global reforms, ""Why Think Like a Freak"" inspired by Levitt and Dubner offers a roadmap for an altogether new approach to problem-solving. Nothing is off-limits as usual. They cover a wide range of subjects with the aim of retraining your brain, including business, philanthropy, sports, and politics. Along the way, you'll discover how a Japanese hot dog eater won his competition, why an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of harmful bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of claiming to be from that country. Among the steps to adopting a Freakish mindset is: Put away your moral compass first because it's difficult to see an issue clearly if you've already made up your mind about how to solve it. Learn to say ""I don't know"" since it is nearly difficult to learn what you need to unless you can admit what you don't know. Think like a child because you'll have more original thoughts and better questions to ask. Learn all you can about incentives since, for better or worse, they control our world. Because right rarely wins the day, learn to persuade those who are unwilling to be persuaded. Learn to see the benefits of giving up because if you aren't willing to give up today's failure, you won't be able to fix tomorrow's issue. No one else clearly sees the world like Levitt and Dubner do. You may now, too. Never before have the writings of such iconoclastic philosophers been so illuminating and entertaining."

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