Think Like A Freak Summary

Think Like a Freak
“How to Persuade People Who Don’t Want to Be Persuaded?” Jayla Helton
ECON 202
Summary
In this chapter, it discusses how it is hard to persuade someone, who does not want to be persuaded. Depending on what subject people favor more in, depends how much better they will do on a test involving things like that. If one enjoys something, they will exceed high in that category. Smart people often know when they are right about something, which leads to them having more confidence in themselves. When someone believes in something strongly, it is hard to persuade them to think differently. Make sure when one is persuading someone else, they include everything that needs to be included, even the downfalls of

whatever they are trying to persuade. Also to some people, flying is more dangerous than driving. This is an example of someones opinion that more than likely, one will never be able to change. When someone tells stories, it is better because people often try to put themselves into the other person shoes.

Response
Trying to persuade someone about something they have strong opinions on, is one hard thing to do.

Politics is one thing. It gets to a point, where after so long of persuading one will realize that people are going to vote for who they want to vote for, no matter what they tell anyone. People will say anything. They will say anything, just to get one out of their face and to stop campaigning to them. Moral is, do not persuade someone so much that one begins to annoy them, because many lose votes like that. Campaigning can be a good thing, but often times it gets taken way too far.
As discussed in the book, they talk about how technology is a huge thing right now, and their will be cars that drive themselves, and it will have a designated area to arrive at. This can be a good and bad thing. When someone is persuading someone to buy this car in the near future, they will not include the downfall of buying these cars, they only focus on the good. With a car being all technology, the chances of a wreck happening are much slimmer. The chances of their being a glitch in the technology of the car, or the car completely shutting off and could leave someone stranded. Dealers only focus on the good, which is not good either. If they were to include the bad things about the car, the chances of that person buying the car would go down, so why would they do that? So, when one is trying to persuade someone to do or to buy, always include the bad even if it is

bad.
Telling the full story, is better than paraphrasing a story. This is how drama gets started. People shorten stories down, and leave out things they should not, and it changes the story completely. Each time the story is told to someone, either something new or something old is left out. This is why, when one is telling someone something, they should not leave off anything because it will cause too much drama.

Reference
Levitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2014). Think Like a Freak: The authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain Your brain. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.