--- product_id: 16067506 title: "Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain" price: "VT5486" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/16067506-think-like-a-freak-the-authors-of-freakonomics-offer-to store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Master incentives shaping behavior Embrace quitting to unlock new solutions Retrain your brain for smarter decisions Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain **Price:** VT5486 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🧩 Crack the code of human behavior and think like a true game-changer! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain - **How much does it cost?** VT5486 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/16067506-think-like-a-freak-the-authors-of-freakonomics-offer-to) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Think Like a Child:** Generate breakthrough ideas by asking better, simpler questions. - • **Challenge Your Assumptions:** Put aside biases and see problems with fresh clarity. - • **Persuade the Unpersuadable:** Learn subtle strategies to influence even the toughest skeptics. - • **Admit What You Don’t Know:** Unlock learning by embracing uncertainty and curiosity. - • **Master the Power of Incentives:** Understand what truly drives human behavior and decision-making. ## Overview “Think Like a Freak” by the authors of Freakonomics offers a fresh, unconventional approach to problem-solving by retraining your brain to think differently. Combining economics, psychology, and real-world stories, it teaches you to challenge assumptions, embrace uncertainty, and master incentives to make smarter decisions in business and life. A must-read for professionals eager to innovate and lead with impact. ## Description Buy Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain on desertcart.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders Review: Thought Provoking and Impactful - “Think Like a Freak” is a thought provoking and at times unorthodox look at how it is possible to retrain the human brain to make impactful decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed the format of the book. The authors present big picture ideas and questions followed with illustrations of real-world antidotes. The stories appear so delightfully random and varied. It is fascinating to have a book that weaves together colonialism, birth rates, famine, crime rates, Bon Jovi, intestinal microbes, a hot dog eating contest, and Winston Churchill. They weave together modern-day urban legends and historical stories to highlight a unique perspective of the choices we make. It creates a fascinating and captivating story of economics and social decisions. How does human nature determine our decisions? Are we capable of making intelligent independent decisions or are we predestined to repeat the same mistakes? I love a book that comes full circle and Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner take seemingly random stories and connect them back to their message. This book features an at times unconventional approach to problem solving and is a fast read. The book tackles some fairly weighty issues in a lighthearted manner. They also take our preconceived notions and turn them completely upside down. I saw applications for their approach to tackling problems in business situations, educational environments, and personal life choices. A lot of the book was applicable to instructional design. How powerful would it be to be aware of how people make decisions and learn before designing a course. What if business entrepreneurs thought about not just their product and profit at a surface level but about how to create something truly impactful and successful in the long term? One of my biggest takeaways from this book was to find something that you love to do and obsess about it. So simple but so powerful. It is obvious from reading this book that Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner love what they do. Review: Like "Freakonomics", this is a great read with some chapters much better than others. - Like Freakanomics, this is a great read. I think the chapters vary in quality and originality, but even though I read the chapters in order, I think that you wouldn't lose much by skipping around. For me the most interesting chapter was the fourth one which covered the differences in the success and work habits of Catholics and Protestants and Catholic and Protestant countries. The chapter that I found the most puzzling was the eighth one on persuading people to believe in/care about man made global warming. To me, the reason that many can't be persuaded of the immanent threat of global warming is that those who are saying that the threat is immanent aren't acting like it in their personal behavior. Barack "the science is settled" Obama flew Michelle on Air Force One to New York City for a "date night" early in his presidency. He takes multiple vacations on Air Force One while she arrives at the same destination hours later on her own plane. Al Gore flies around on private jets, lives in enormous houses and sold his Current TV station to the oil enriched Al Jazeera. Robert Kennedy Jr won't allow wind turbines near his property. It's as if your next door neighbor told you that you live in a dangerous, high crime area and that you must install iron bars on your windows and stay inside with the doors and windows locked. Meanwhile he sunbathing in his front yard with the doors and windows wide open and his children playing in the street (later you find out that he owns a company that sells iron bars/carbon credits). ## Features - First put away your moral compass—because it’s hard to see a problem clearly if you’ve already decided what to do about it.| Learn to say “I don’t know”—for until you can admit what you don’t yet know it’s virtually impossible to learn what you need to.| Think like a child—because you’ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions.| Take a master class in incentives—because for better or worse incentives rule our world.| Learn to persuade people who don’t want to be persuaded—because being right is rarely enough to carry the day.| Learn to appreciate the upside of quitting—because you can’t solve tomorrow’s problem if you aren’t willing to abandon today’s dud. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #46,018 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #39 in Theory of Economics #93 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences #160 in Popular Social Psychology & Interactions | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 7,601 Reviews | ## Images ![Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ZnMzZq4aL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thought Provoking and Impactful *by J***Y on April 17, 2025* “Think Like a Freak” is a thought provoking and at times unorthodox look at how it is possible to retrain the human brain to make impactful decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed the format of the book. The authors present big picture ideas and questions followed with illustrations of real-world antidotes. The stories appear so delightfully random and varied. It is fascinating to have a book that weaves together colonialism, birth rates, famine, crime rates, Bon Jovi, intestinal microbes, a hot dog eating contest, and Winston Churchill. They weave together modern-day urban legends and historical stories to highlight a unique perspective of the choices we make. It creates a fascinating and captivating story of economics and social decisions. How does human nature determine our decisions? Are we capable of making intelligent independent decisions or are we predestined to repeat the same mistakes? I love a book that comes full circle and Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner take seemingly random stories and connect them back to their message. This book features an at times unconventional approach to problem solving and is a fast read. The book tackles some fairly weighty issues in a lighthearted manner. They also take our preconceived notions and turn them completely upside down. I saw applications for their approach to tackling problems in business situations, educational environments, and personal life choices. A lot of the book was applicable to instructional design. How powerful would it be to be aware of how people make decisions and learn before designing a course. What if business entrepreneurs thought about not just their product and profit at a surface level but about how to create something truly impactful and successful in the long term? One of my biggest takeaways from this book was to find something that you love to do and obsess about it. So simple but so powerful. It is obvious from reading this book that Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner love what they do. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Like "Freakonomics", this is a great read with some chapters much better than others. *by M***D on July 16, 2014* Like Freakanomics, this is a great read. I think the chapters vary in quality and originality, but even though I read the chapters in order, I think that you wouldn't lose much by skipping around. For me the most interesting chapter was the fourth one which covered the differences in the success and work habits of Catholics and Protestants and Catholic and Protestant countries. The chapter that I found the most puzzling was the eighth one on persuading people to believe in/care about man made global warming. To me, the reason that many can't be persuaded of the immanent threat of global warming is that those who are saying that the threat is immanent aren't acting like it in their personal behavior. Barack "the science is settled" Obama flew Michelle on Air Force One to New York City for a "date night" early in his presidency. He takes multiple vacations on Air Force One while she arrives at the same destination hours later on her own plane. Al Gore flies around on private jets, lives in enormous houses and sold his Current TV station to the oil enriched Al Jazeera. Robert Kennedy Jr won't allow wind turbines near his property. It's as if your next door neighbor told you that you live in a dangerous, high crime area and that you must install iron bars on your windows and stay inside with the doors and windows locked. Meanwhile he sunbathing in his front yard with the doors and windows wide open and his children playing in the street (later you find out that he owns a company that sells iron bars/carbon credits). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From a Problem-Solver *by S***D on April 18, 2023* This is the first time I have read a book by the authors, but I plan to read their previous books. This is such an easy, yet thought-provoking read. As someone who regularly solves problems and looks for ways to improve processes, I am excited to apply some of the lessons learned from this book. What makes this book so good is that it is full of great stories that introduce and back up valuable lessons that have the power to change your thinking. This book challenges how we currently think while giving some practical ways to think differently. It has been said that our lives move in the direction of our strongest thoughts, so to apply new thinking concepts from experts should positively affect our thinking and therefore our lives. A large portion of the book is devoted to problem-solving. It shares concepts such as thinking like a child, redefining a problem, and attacking the root cause all woven through some nicely shared stories. The stories are valuable to helping the concepts stick in the brain. Stories deeply resonant with people and are memorable. In fact, after reading this book, I aspire to be a better storyteller as there is so much value in it as a skillset to possess. The chapter about quitting revealed a big upside to quitting things that take up time, space, energy, and the likes without benefit. Or perhaps, it is time to quit one thing to be able to move on from something that is not working: a job, a relationship, a career, etc. Quitting seems like it would only apply to losers, but after reading the chapter, I understand that sometimes we continue to do things for the sake of commitment only. That reason alone needs to be weighed as sometimes one must let go to move into something more worthwhile, to the next season, or calling. The authors do not suggest quitting everything and doing nothing, but rather, to see that quitting does not equate to failure as many have been taught. I would recommend this read, especially if you solve problems a lot. Again, it is quick, easy, and interesting. This book will challenge your status quo of thinking and give you some new concepts as replacements. ## Frequently Bought Together - Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain - Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition - SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/16067506-think-like-a-freak-the-authors-of-freakonomics-offer-to](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/16067506-think-like-a-freak-the-authors-of-freakonomics-offer-to) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-06*