The Great Mental Models Vol 1 - Shane Parrish
Summary
- The more mental tools you have at your disposal, the better equipped you will be to deal with challenges you may face.
How I discovered it
- I have followed fs.blog and Shane Parrish for a long time, and always enjoy what they put out.
How the book changed me
- I love the idea of using different mental models to process the world around us. I definitely will put these into practise.
Details
- It is hard to see a system that we are inside of
- The map is not the territory
- How to know your circle of competence
- Use a journal to monitor progress
- Consider second order effects of your actions
- Learn how to fail properly: never take a risk that will take you out completley. And secondly, learn from failure.
- Occam's razor - The simplest explanation is most likely to be correct
- Hanlon's razor - Don't attribute to malice that which is more likely stupidity
- Bayes Theorem
Quotes
- What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than for what they possess in common with others - Aristotle
- A little learning is a dangerous thing - Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring - There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again - Alexander pope
- Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results - Margaret Atwood