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Set up Forcing Functions, like standing meeting or deadlines, to help grease the wheels for changes you want to occur. Ever sat through a bad movie just because you paid a lot for the ticket? You might be falling prey to Sunk Cost Fallacy. Before concluding that your colleague who messes up your projects is out to sabotage you, consider Hanlon's Razor for an alternative explanation. Use the 5 Whys model to better understand people's motivations or get to the root cause of a problem. If you've ever been overwhelmed by a to-do list that's grown too long, maybe you need the Eisenhower Decision Matrix to help you prioritize. How can mental models help you? Well, here are just a few examples. Or, you can just read Super Thinking, a fun, illustrated guide to every mental model you could possibly need. They're called mental models, and you can find them in dense textbooks on psychology, physics, economics, and more. The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. 
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First principles versus conventional wisdom for approaching familiar situations in an innovative way.įull show notes and resources can be found here:. Why you should be second-guessing your natural intuition during the decision-making process, and how you can use mental models to do it. What a South American tribe that can only count to three and our own grade school experiences with multiplication tables can teach us about the power of math as a mental model. How mental models used primarily in physics, economics, biology, and math can be easily adjusted for everyday decisions. What are mental models, and how can they be applied to make your life run more efficiently and effectively?. Gabriel Weinberg ( is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.
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