Latticework of Mental Models
“You've got to have models in your head. And you've got to array your experience both vicarious and direct on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.
You've got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head. What are the models? Well, the first rule is that you've got to have multiple models because if you just have one or two that you're using, the nature of human psychology is such that you'll torture reality so that it fits your models, or at least you'll think it does. You become the equivalent of a chiropractor who, of course, is the great boob in medicine.”
Charles. T. Munger
What Are Mental Models?
“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.
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.” Farnam Street
This page contains all the mental models that I have written about so far and I intend to write this as a personal project as well. These mental models will give you exposure to a lot of disciplines and at the same time improve your thinking and reduce your errors, and hopefully reduce the amount of impact of biases.
Note: I succumb to the biases that I write about regularly.
Core thinking concepts
Psychology
First Conclusion Bias
Sensitivity to fairness
Science
The idea of a Backup System: Very similar to the idea of redundancy.
Galilean relativity: Similar to relativity.
Mathematics
Sport
Systems
Military/Politics
Other
DCF model
Economics
Supply and Demand