Super Thinking The Big Book of Mental Models

So mental models is a fancy word for concept.

So for example, I was a physics major in college lots of physics concepts you probably don't care at all about. Aren't generally useful.

So it's like the amount of material you need before that happens. And if you can recognize that this is a critical mass situation, then you can immediately realize that it's going to have a snowball at some point.

And so if you can recognize all of these like that one's from physics but there's one's from economics and biology and you know all different science areas and math if you have all these in your head and you get a random situation, you can be like these three things apply.

The book the super thing is full of all these really interesting examples one of which was nudging and on restaurant menus I always wondered why some things are in boxes and when I got to eat with my brother and law my wife for example he'll go oh this is the house special.

So mental models is a fancy word for concept.

So for example, I was a physics major in college lots of physics concepts you probably don't care at all about. Aren't generally useful. But one that is is critical mass.

And so these are effectively shortcuts of how to think strategically.

And so if you can recognize all of these like that one's from physics but there's one's from economics and biology and you know all different science areas and math if you have all these in your head and you get a random situation, you can be like these three things apply. You can really quickly assess the situation and be a better decision maker.

The book the super thing is full of all these really interesting examples one of which was nudging and on restaurant menus I always wondered why some things are in boxes and when I got to eat with my brother and law my wife for example he'll go oh this is the house special. I'm like that doesn't mean anything it's in a box it means that this is the highest profit margin thing or they can make a huge pot of it in the morning and it stays there all day so they're like if we sell more of this it's gone we don't throw it away and we make you know 30 cents on the dollar for it or something like that I didn't know that.

So mental models is a fancy word for concept.

So for example, I was a physics major in college lots of physics concepts you probably don't care at all about. Sure. Aren't generally useful. But one that is is critical mass.

The book the super thing is full of all these really interesting examples one of which was nudging and on restaurant menus I always wondered why some things are in boxes and when I got to eat with my brother and law my wife for example he'll go oh this is the house special.

I'm reading a book about cult mind control where having the author on it literally teaches people how to get other family members out of cults yeah and eat this sort of makes an appearance he doesn't say disconfirmation bias but it really is that he's like you you sound families what you think is gonna happen is you're gonna get them over for dinner one night even though they're supposed to be isolated from you and you're gonna go look at all this news about your cult and look who you are and all your friends and family are worried about you and they love you and like uh we're all panicking and crying and look at all these bad things your cult

The book is called super thinking and links to his stuff of course will be in the show notes