mental model
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Mindsets, analogy from actually things, but used in other domain.
Example: the process of making of a pearl is one stuff covering the kernel to form a larger kernel, for later sfftu to cover. This growing-kernel analogy can be used to understand man’s mental development, where they observes from within their current self’s eye and actions, and those observations covered their current self to a self developed one step further
1. list of useful mental models
2. Links
This notion is popular and at least is present in the folloing works:
- scott young’s blog on 25 thinking tools based on role, like artist, engineer
- https://fs.blog/tgmm/ and https://fs.blog/mental-models/ is an archive of mental models
- james clear have written about it
- the idea is popularized with an association to very successful figure Charlie Munger, and his attribution of his exceptional clear thinking capabliity to mental model (in a speech, as said by Tim, but I had trouble finding the original footage/transcript, his link is broken)
- Tim Ferris mentioned it in Ferriss, Timothy ::: The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman’s fundamental chapter