
The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

It requires you to innovate, like mutations in the evolution timescale, to see if you can come up with ideas that will improve your chances of success.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Rather, the increased speed of the prey means that only the fastest predators will get food and live long enough to reproduce. Thus, over time, the average speed of the predator species increases. The pressures on both the predator and prey are constant, which is what produces the Red Queen Effect.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Self-preservation or survival instincts are innate behaviors that all organisms possess for the sake of protection from harm. They
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
It helps us understand randomness and disorder in systems and explains the conversion of energy from one form to another, the direction in which heat will flow, and the availability of energy to do work. One of the most useful aspects of thermodynamics is that it applies to all systems everywhere in the known universe, giving it a broad applicabili
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Reciprocity can be summed up like this: when you act on things, they act on you.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
You need three things for replication to occur: A code that represents what you wish to replicate, A means of copying this code, And a place to process the code and construct the replication.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Become what you want to see in the world and it will be so. If you want an amazing relationship with your partner, be an amazing partner. If you want people to be thoughtful and kind, be thoughtful and kind. If you want people to listen to you, listen to them. The best way to achieve success is to deserve success. Small changes in your actions chan
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Newton’s second law, relating force to acceleration, which show us that mass matters when it comes to inertia. When a force acts on an object, the object accelerates in the direction of the force. If mass stays the same, increasing force will increase acceleration. If the force on an object remains constant, increasing mass will decrease accelerati
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are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains.”3 This is why putting ourselves out there, engaging people who might dismiss or reject us, is so scary. Because in the one-off situation, the pain it will cause is perceived as stronger than the positive feelings of acceptance. The trick is to start looking at outcomes in the aggregate
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