1st Blog Post on SP Reading

For my first book I ready the first 100 pages of Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, I borrowed it from Morris and he needed it back, so I dont know if ill be able to finish it, so I am moving on to read The Tipping Point next. I really enjoyed what I read about this book; Ariely was fun to read and writes in a very quick and easy way. His study on behavioral economics was fascinating and definitely a possible topic for my senior paper. I think his work on how IRRATIONAL people are complemented my philosophy class well where we were also examining the question of how rational people are. This book really got me thinking about all the decisions I made; If i was drafting a player for a fantasy baseball league, or deciding what homework to do first I had to stop and wonder if I was making that decision because I had been tricked to do something irrational in one of the ways Ariely discussed. This book has gotten me really excited about economics and decision making and was a great extension to Freakonomics as a study on why things happen the way they do. Other books I may want to read as a follow up are Incognito which i read the first two chapters of for Philosophy, The Tipping Point, which I have started up already, And the freakonomics sequal Superfreakonomics, though I think i want to read a new author.