Book: Freakonomics
I have heard about the book Freakonomics but never got around to reading it. So, today I took a break from my long list of work to do and head to the library to do some leisure reading. I picked up this book and few hours later it was finished and here I am blogging about it.
I am a slow reader and prefer to absorb the books that I read but this one I knew if I put down it might take a long time to get back to it. So my long reading session actually consisted of few sessions- few hours in the library, few hours in Karma Tea, then home for Asr and Maghrib prayers and then finally finished it and I should go and pray Isha.
The books gives you a new way of looking at things/issues/problems. In the movie Patch Adams, Howard Hughes tells Patch Adams that you have to look beyond the problem to find the solution. I should mention here that I was a Howard Hughes Scholar in University.
The other points the book makes is that people are generally good but if there are incentives to cheat then some will do that. Therefore, I suggest that a strong emphasis should be on building the moral charachter of individuals.
I am a slow reader and prefer to absorb the books that I read but this one I knew if I put down it might take a long time to get back to it. So my long reading session actually consisted of few sessions- few hours in the library, few hours in Karma Tea, then home for Asr and Maghrib prayers and then finally finished it and I should go and pray Isha.
The books gives you a new way of looking at things/issues/problems. In the movie Patch Adams, Howard Hughes tells Patch Adams that you have to look beyond the problem to find the solution. I should mention here that I was a Howard Hughes Scholar in University.
The other points the book makes is that people are generally good but if there are incentives to cheat then some will do that. Therefore, I suggest that a strong emphasis should be on building the moral charachter of individuals.
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