You know the saying: “There are no shortcuts in life.” What if that saying is just wrong? In his new book Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life, the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy argues that shortcuts can be applied to practically anything: music, psychotherapy, even politics. Our latest installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club.
To find out more, check out the podcasts from which this hour was drawn: “What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?” and No Stupid Question’s “Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer?”
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