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Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average from the Exceptional

Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving

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Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average from the Exceptional

By: Peter Hollins
Narrated by: Russell Newton
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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.

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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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Best book ever, this is the only book you need to read for self improvement.

Love it

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really good content. very useful tools for today today management.naration felt bit artificial from time to time.

Excellent tools for day today life

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This book was a pleasant surprise. I've listened to many books on entrepreneurship and ways to improve your mindset but most of the new ones are a bit more marketing than actual resourceful, this one on the other hand is quite useful and full of models that I can actually use and improve my way of thinking. The narrator's voice is pleasant and manages to captivate you. I believe that in order to remember all the models and be able to actually apply them you'll need to listen the book at least twice or also get the ebook/hard cover to be able to adnotate and bookmark ideas that you want to implement in the near future.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Very useful mental models for entrepreneurs

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I was provided this book as an arc. And, it had some useful information but was very dry. At times repetitive. I’m sure listeners could find some useful information here though.

Useful material

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Who takes the time to learn how to think? Not many, but everyone should. This book is a quick, well-written treatise on thinking and decision-making. Each method is defined in enough detail to either give you the steps necessary to employ the method or pique your interest to find out more about it. There were several topics that I bookmarked and shared with my coworkers.

A toolkit everyone can benefit from.

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While we have heard of most of these models, bearing about them in the framework of how to think and achieve exceptional results was useful. A good review even for experienced mgrs/leaders.

A good overview of mental models

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I loved this book ,it has to be one of my favorite books of all time.

Awesome book!

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Excellent information without fluff... definitely a must read for critical thinking. Also very comprehensive on mental paradigms ...

A+++

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I don’t see a pdf download in my library. I’m hoping that the pdf has a summary of the models...

Frustrating trying to get/find the pdf file.

Where do I get the pdf?

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