To improve my thinking, I’m on a quest to learn the most important mental models.
This page is a collection of my notes throughout this journey, which started on May 16th, 2020.
My aim is to write about these models in the simplest way possible. By doing so, I’m forcing myself to find the very essence of the model so that I’m able to explain it to you in a straight forward manner.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein
I also hope that this page can act as a starting point for building your own latticework of mental models.
Let’s begin.
Thinking Concepts
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“You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose.…
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What book(s) are you reading for these mental models? I tried finding it on your video but couldn’t :/ thank you! Love your channel.
This is a good place to start: https://fs.blog/mental-models/ Hope you find it useful😇!