Shane Parrish

The quality of your thinking depends on the models that are in your head.

The way he describes it,

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best of what other people have figured out.
Charlie Munger1

In life and business, the person with the fewest blind spots wins.

The skill for finding the right solutions for the right problems is one form of wisdom.

the pursuit of going to bed smarter than when we woke up.

time-tested ideas

The author and explorer of mental models, Peter Bevelin, put it best: “I don’t want to be a great problem solver. I want to avoid problems—prevent them from happening and doing it right from the beginning.”

A mental model is simply a representation of how something works.

We cannot keep all of the details of the world in our brains, so we use models to simplify the complex into understandable and organizable chunks.