The Great Mental Models_ General Thinking Concepts
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- Author: Shane Parrish
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The quality of your thinking depends on the models that are in your head.
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The key to better understanding the world is to build a latticework of mental models.
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Charlie Munger, Nassim Taleb, Charles Darwin, Peter Kaufman, Peter Bevelin, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, and so many others.
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In life and business, the person with the fewest blind spots wins.
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Peter Bevelin, put it best: “I don’t want to be a great problem solver. I want to avoid problems—prevent them from happening and doing it right from the beginning.”
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A mental model is simply a representation of how something works.
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We cannot keep all of the details of the world in our brains, so we use models to simplify the complex into understandable and organizable chunks.
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Using the lenses of our mental models helps us illuminate these interconnections. The more lenses used on a given problem, the more of reality reveals itself. The more of reality we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the more we know what to do.
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The only way you’ll know the extent to which you understand reality is to put your ideas and understanding into action. If you don’t test your ideas against the real world—keep contact with the earth—how can you be sure you understand?
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the limits of our perception. We must be open to other perspectives if we truly want to understand the results of our actions. Despite feeling that we’ve got all the information, if we’re on the ship, the fish in the ocean has more he can share.
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ego. Many of us tend to have too much invested in our opinions of ourselves to see the world’s feedback—the feedback we need to update our beliefs about reality.
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Our inability to learn from the world because of our ego happens for many reasons, but two are worth mentioning here. First, we’re so afraid about what others will say about us that we fail to put our ideas out there and subject them to criticism. This way we can always be right. Second, if we do put our ideas out there and they are criticized, our ego steps in to protect us. We become invested in defending instead of upgrading our ideas.
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simple ideas are of great value because they can help us prevent complex problems.
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We are afraid to learn and admit when we don’t know enough. This is the mindset that leads to poor decisions.
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I joke with my kids that if you want to suck up someone’s brain, you should simply read a book. All the great wisdom of humanity is written down somewhere.
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Charlie Munger, Nassim Taleb, Charles Darwin, Peter Kaufman, Peter Bevelin, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein,
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I believe in the discipline of mastering the best of what other people have figured out. Charlie Munger1
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