Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts, Decision Making And Problem Solving, Paperback/Andreas Janes

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Description 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. In this book, you will learn: -What are Mental Models?-Great thinking and decision making-What kind of Mental Models exist-Tools for Thinking Better-Best way to make an intelligent decision-How Mental Models unlock your thinking 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. Mental models are how we understand the world. Not only do they shape what we think and how we understand but they shape the connections and opportunities that we see. Mental models are how we simplify complexity, why we consider some things more relevant than others, and how we reason. The quality of our thinking is proportional to the models in our head and their usefulness in the situation at hand. The more models you have-the bigger your toolbox-the more likely you are to have the right models to see reality. It turns out that when it comes to improving your ability to make decision variety matters. Most of us, however, are specialists. Instead of a latticework of mental models, we have a few from our discipline. Each specialist sees something different. By default, a typical Engineer will think in systems. A psychologist will think in terms of incentives. A biologist will think in terms of evolution. By putting these disciplines together in our head, we can walk around a problem in a three dimensional way. If we're only looking at the problem one way, we've got a blind spot. And blind spots can kill you.