The Best Mental Models

A mental model is simply a representation of how something works. 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.

Farnam Street • Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)

Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)

Farnam Street fs.blog

You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You've got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head. What are the models? Well, the first rule is that you've got to have multiple models— because if you just have one or two that you're using, the... See more

Charlie Munger • A Lesson On Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business – Charles Munger, USC Business School, 1994

This is what mental models are: ideas from diverse fields that can aid your life. In this sense, improving vocabulary is a meta mental model. It’s a way of finding and organising new mental models.

Neil Kakkar • Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)

Gautam Baid

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Cover of The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)

8 mental model design heuristics

Caleb Furlough uxdesign.cc

The map is not the territory is a mental model that reminds us not to confuse a model of a situation with the situation itself.

Your Innovator’s Toolkit: The map is not the territory

Lindy Effect: "If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives another decade, then it will be expected to be in print another fifty years.”