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483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

Freakonomics Radio

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Is There Any Hope That We Can Actually Come Up With Short Cuts?

There are three categories of those who create short cuts through a lot of effort, and then the rest of us. My book is trying to move people from a sort of category two person to category three that says, aga, but somebody's done all this work. I'm just going to sit back and take advantage of it. And i think once people to see the power of thinking in this mathematical way, often it doesn't require you knowing a lot of technical mathematics. It just requires you taking a step backwards understanding that there are some clever techniques coming up after the break.

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