Book review
The Great Mental Models
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish was a short, enjoyable read or listen of about 3.5 hours. I found its mental models useful. A short summary I saved covered these models:
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish was a short, enjoyable read or listen of about 3.5 hours. I found its mental models useful. A short summary I saved covered these models:
- Maps are not the territory: a model is useful without perfectly matching reality.
- Circle of competence: know where your knowledge ends.
- Inversion: look at a problem from the opposite direction.
- Occam’s razor: consider the simpler explanation.
- Hanlon’s razor: avoid assuming malice where error could explain the result.