I just finished the New York bestseller Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything by Levitt and Dubner. Much like my experience with Shane Hipps book, I was about a quarter through before I had to take a necessary reading detour with school last semester. After refreshing myself on the first 50 pages, I dove in and it was fascinating. This is one of those unique books that I found entering into a plethora of conversations on many different levels. Like a water drenched sponge, it saturated my thinking to the extent that I found it distilling into various areas of my thinking, reflections and conversations – coercing me to ask deeper questions about seemingly ordinary things.

Freakonomics may not have a solidifying theme but it does have a common thread as it discusses and critiques conventional wisdom from an economist point of view. I found myself repeatedly and verbally saying “fascinating” and “interesting” or “You’ve go to be kidding me” to the point where I was sure that others around me thought I was going crazy. All in all, it is an intriguing read and one that has made me question “conventional wisdom” and the fears and agendas it often feeds from.

If you haven’t read it yet…it is worth your time and money.

Well off to my next book: The Search to Belong by Joseph R. Myers.