The Best Mental Models
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
At its core, Occam’s Razor is a principle that suggests that when faced with competing explanations for an event or occurrence, you should select the explanation that makes the fewest number of assumptions.
Occam's Razor: The Atomic Mental Model - Sketchy Ideas %
People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
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Species tend to adapt to their surroundings in order to survive, given the combination of their genetics and their environment – an always-unavoidable combination. However, adaptations made in an individual’s lifetime are not passed down genetically, as was once thought: Populations of species adapt through the process of evolution by natural selec... See more
authority • Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions
The Red Queen Effect
The First Principles Method Explained by Elon Musk
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“An intrinsic characteristic that gives the business a durable competitive advantage” - Munger
Did you just multiply your hard-work with zero or added it?
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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.