Power of Mental Models
- If you can identify a mental model that applies to a situation in front of you, you immediately know a lot about it.
- p119: A wise person is not someone who knows everything, but someone who can make sense of anything based on a "latticework of mental models"
- mental models are short cuts to higher-level thinking.
Your brain works with a lattice work of mental models. The key is to understand the most fundamental models – the ones that do most of the heavy lifting.
You can out-think smarter people if you hone your mental models and train yourself to be objective and multidisciplinary. PersonalMBA