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Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien’s The Great Mental Models: Is designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful, and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand. Mental models help you improve your decision-making, productivity, and how clearly you see the world.
You will discover what forces govern the universe and how to focus your efforts so you can harness them to your advantage, rather than fight with them or worse yet— ignore them.
The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has done any kind of project knows a hammer often isn't enough. The more tools you have at your disposal, the more likely you'll use the right tool for the job — and get it done right.
The same is true when it comes to your thinking. The quality of your outcomes depends on the mental models in your head. And most people are going through life with little more than a hammer. Until now.
Upgrade your mental toolbox!
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"In life and business, the person with the fewest blind spots wins."
The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien
The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has done any kind of project knows a hammer often isn't enough.
The more tools you have at your disposal, the more likely you'll use the right tool for the job — and get it done right.
The same is true when it comes to your thinking. The quality of your outcomes depends on the mental models in your head. And most people are going through life with little more than a hammer.
Until now.
Shane Parrish’s The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand.
This volume details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve:
* your decision making,
* productivity,
* and how clearly you see the world.
You will discover what forces govern the universe and how to focus your efforts so you can harness them to your advantage, rather than fight with them or worse yet— ignore them.
Upgrade your mental toolbox!
INTRO
Shane Parrish’s goal is to equip our minds with tools that can not only upgrade our decision-making process but also bring us closer to where we want to be in life.
You can imagine mental models as lenses you put to see the surrounding world differently, better. These mental tools offer a unique way of tackling problems and making smarter decisions – they help you spot opportunities and avoid mistakes.
Part 1: The best thinking is often not popular
Clip: 0:18 - 2:36 Key to better thinking, Is Think Differently - Surround yourself with people who do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkSTWoyXz8o&ab_channel=FarnamStreet
* Surround yourself with people who think differently
* Often the best thinking is not popular thinking
* Advantageous divergence - Right and against the crowd
* Rapid growth
Part 2: Rethinking Cycle for Thinking Better
(Adam Grant & Shane Parrish)
Clip: 0:12 - 2:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ9uW-rFSo8&ab_channel=TheKnowledgeProject
* Outcome over Ego
* Question long held beliefs
* Don’t get locked into beliefs
THE WHAT IFS
1. Inversion
“ Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance “
When your having a problem solving a problem, Invert them
Clip: 0:12 - 2:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMkBihsWZw&ab_channel=ProductivityGame
* Try solving the opposite problem first
2. First Principles
Space X - Example: Elon Musk
Clip: 2:16 - 4:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMkBihsWZw&ab_channel=ProductivityGame
* Fundamental components of problem
* Examine existing solutions or use first principles to come up with a better solution
3. Second-Order Thinking
Clip: 4:58 - 6:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMkBihsWZw&ab_channel=ProductivityGame
* Before implementing a major decision do some second-order thinking
* Think of the consequences of the decision long term
* Adjust and recalibrate if needed
Example of The Importance of User Mental Models in Designing Products / And using all the strategies above, Inversion/ First Principles/ Second Order thinking in the design project
Clip: 0:00 - 2:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAgXISssAws&ab_channel=NNgroup
What users *think* they know about your system will determine how they interact with the design. Understand users' mental models to design something that'll work well in practice.
OUTRO
Steps 1:
If you are struggling with a problem OR need to make a decision
Clip: 06:20 - 06:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMkBihsWZw&ab_channel=ProductivityGame
* Inversion
* First Principles Thinking
* Second-Order Thinking
Step 2:
Finding people who think differently - to think better at work and personal life
(in Shane Parrish words)
Clip: 4:31 - 7:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkSTWoyXz8o&ab_channel=FarnamStreet
“It's a journey there’s no end to it “
* Follow people you respect but disagree with
* People that surprise you
* It’s a journey and not a destination
* Make connects that others can’t
Don’t Read Popular Thought (Meetings ineffective)
Clip: 3:13 - 4:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkSTWoyXz8o&ab_channel=FarnamStreet
* Signalling
* What you know vs what you think
Clip: 5:21 - 6:55 Tools to Questions and Improve
(Adam Grant & Shane Parrish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ9uW-rFSo8&ab_channel=TheKnowledgeProject
* Utility of ideas