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We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.

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Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.

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What would you rather do? Fix a small problem well or answer a small problem well or flail around at the big ones and pay a lot of lip service?

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What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more than themes. Themes are boring. Themes are, 'Wool is back,' but ideas are, 'Why is wool back?'

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I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

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Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people who write books that you read. You used to have to write a letter to the publisher and hope they passed it along, which they never did.

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I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

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Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

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We've been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that's true?

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While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 26th, 1963

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