Book Notes: The Great Mental Models Vol. 1 by Shane Parrish
In life and business, the person with the fewest blind spots wins. Removing blind spots requires us to have a better understanding of reality. We can improve our understanding of how the world works by using mental models to shape how we think, how we understand, and how we form beliefs. A mental model is simply a representation of how something works so we can simplify the complex into organizable chunks for us to understand.
Favorite Quote
“Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try to bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. You’ve got to have models in your head.”
―Charlie Munger
Book Notes
Whether you realize it or not, you use mental models every day to help make decisions. They are the tools used to describe the way the world works. They simplify the complex into understandable and organizable chunks so you can think, decide, and better understand the world around you. The better your models, the better your thinking.
While there are millions of mental models to choose from, some true and some false, these nine mental models will help improve your thinking right…
