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16. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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How to Write a Successful Professional Baseball Club

Bob Greene: How would you translate the Billy Bean method for building a successful professional baseball club to an individual's approach to life? Greene: The first takeaway in a very general way, from moneyball for your life, is to ask why you're doing things the way you're doing them. He says he found just the thrill of reading this book on a sentence-by-sentence level to be really large.

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