Superfreakonomics By Steven Levitt And Stephen Dubner

Individuals are adapted to different behavior. In Chapter 4 of SuperFreakonomics, the authors, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner present the idea of wearing seat belts can avoid car accidents, however, it requests individuals to change their human behavior and get used to the habit of wearing seatbelts. A change in human behavior can prevent disasters but each individual has different habit and routine, which could not be changed easily. Human behavior is a barrier of a simple solution of serious problems. Levitt and Dubner state, “Every day, billions of people around the world engage in behaviors they know are bad for them-smoking cigarettes, gambling excessively, riding a motorcycle without a hamlet” (355). In other words, people know what a better decision is, but they are not willing to choose it since they believe that the bad decision makes them feel better. For instance, it is proven that seat belts can protect people from being injured in a car accident, but some individuals denied to use seat belts because they believed wearing seat belts is a sight of doubting the driving ability of the driver. Human behaviors are hard to change because individuals stick to their daily routine and could not or not willing to fix it even though they knew it is a bad routine. Some of …show more content…
There might be easy solution to several serious situations, but in order for these solutions to work, individuals have to change their behavior. Personally, I learned although there are solutions to problems, but it is useless if people do not manipulate themselves to solve these issues. It is very similar to the issue that a person who is sick should take medicine. The medicine is provided, but it is up to the patients to decide if they should take it or not. And some people would deny because they are used to not taking any medication when they are sick, which is considered as the human behavior of