
Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average from the Exceptional
Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving
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Narrated by:
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Russell Newton
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By:
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Peter Hollins
Thirty practical and applicable guidelines to think smarter, faster, and with expert insight (even if you aren’t one).
Mental models are like giving a treasure map to someone lost in the woods. They provide instant understanding, context, and most importantly, a path to the end destination. Now imagine having such a map for all problems and decisions in your life.
Battle information overwhelm, focus on what really matters, and make complex decisions with speed and confidence.
Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools sheds light on true intelligence: It’s not about knowledge and knowing the capitals of all the countries in the world. It’s about how you think, and each mental model is a specific framework on how to think smart and with insight. You can approach the world by trying to analyze each piece of information separately, or you can learn mental models that do the work for you.
Learn how billionaires/CEOs, Olympic athletes, and scientists think differently and avoid mistakes.
Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years, and is a best-selling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path towards success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience.
The person with a hammer only sees nails. Become the person with a hammer, saw, sander, drill, screwdriver, and axe.
- How to balance information and action without sacrificing speed - MM #3 and #5.
- Understanding what data is really telling you - MM #8 and #10.
- Charles Darwin’s secret to clear and honest thinking - MM #11.
Mental models for all walks of life: productivity, professional success, greater happiness, critical thinking, and decision-making.
- Understanding correlation, causation, root causation, and proximate causation - MM #15 and #16.
- Implementing anti-goals to find real priorities and focus - MM #19 and #23.
- Being able to predict the future with basic probabilistic thinking - MM #10 and #25.
- How to strategically allocate your time and resources for biggest impact - MM #27 and #30.
Think in models and always be a step ahead. Scroll up and click the "buy now" button to become exceptional.
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The Good
1. Logically arranged a broad set of mental models under 4 themes, which make them very actionable when you’re executing in that theme.
2. Explains with examples and has sprinkles of deeper insights (not highlighted). Thankfully avoids some trivial description of the titles.
The Gaps
1. Audio book is not marked with Mental models in each chapter (there are only 4)
2. Many Mental Model titles are not clear enough, confusing at first.
3. Known mental models like “Circle of competence” are missing but are referred to at places as “zone of genius” (why dodge the popular reference)
4. Book starts with a brief acknowledgement of Charlie munger & lattice work of theory, but during the chapters the munger’s narrative is less pronounced (you’ll notice only if you’ve read the almanack)
5. There are real insights mentioned during the chapter which shine through, but are not highlighted or discussed at all. You will miss them if not reading with intensity. Wonder why?
6. Not purely Mental Models – Books lists “tricks / thumb rules” as models (eg: “Minimize Regret”) and no mention of what it models. Deeper analysis surfaces the same model mentioned under different titles.
On a high level,
- Liked the book as it attempts to put them in logical themes with some insights, is not a long read and is overall useful.
- Often confused with frameworks, a book on Mental models do not clarify and repeats the same deeper models as different models.
- Feels like the book was half heartedly written or rushed to pack together a list.
- Funny enough, they probably forgot to apply the mental models on the book itself.
Overall,
it’s a book about using a few mental models (not clearly recognized) in 30 different ways. Sadly, this book can lead you off-track and not realize the “models” that nature presents into thinking them as a list of tricks. What this book really gives you is a checklist when dealing with problem solving in general which is undoubtedly helpful but not doing justice with “mental models”.
Fine book if you're new to mental models
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Love it
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Excellent tools for day today life
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Very useful mental models for entrepreneurs
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Useful material
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A toolkit everyone can benefit from.
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A good overview of mental models
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Awesome book!
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A+++
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Frustrating trying to get/find the pdf file.
Where do I get the pdf?
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