Think Like A Frake Character Analysis

The tale of the Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen and the multitude of stories given in the book, “Think like a Freak” by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner are comparable by nature. The two highlight that thinking like a child: sets us free from preconceptions, allows us to think small, and see the obvious for what it is. All of these topics underline the relationship between knowledge and performance in the decision-making process. Levitt and Dubner make multiple points of what they think “thinking like a freak” may be in this book. In the fifth chapter, the book teaches us how performing or thinking like a child could in turn help us to think like a freak and provide more knowledge for us. The tale of the Emperor’s new clothes illustrates the same idea that, even …show more content…
88). As Levitt and Dubner put it, thinking small as a child would, will help you to work through your problem in different ways or like a freak. This draws a strong relationship between knowledge and performance in the art of decision-making. If you have the knowledge for the problem and perform like everybody else you won’t get very far but, if you have the knowledge for the problem and think small like a child or a freak and perform as such, you’re decision-making process in solving the problem or challenge ahead will be like no others and eventually you could come to a conclusion much faster and successfully than others. Levitt and Dubner support this by providing a quote from Sir Issac Newton, “‘To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age,’ he wrote. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything.’” (Levitt and Dubner. 2014.