Mental Models: A Collection of Thinking Tools Helping You To Manage Productivity, Thinking in Systems, to Improve Your Day-To-Day Decision-Making, Problem-Solving and Logical Analysis Skills
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English Pages 169 Year 2019
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- David Drive
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- Mental Models, Thinking Tools, to Manage Productivity, Thinking in Systems
Table of contents :
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Understanding of the Mental Models
What is a Mental Model?
How Our Minds Work and Why the Models Help
The Benefits of These Mental Models
Mental Models Affect the Way that You Are Going to View the World Around You
The Law of the Instrument
Chapter 2: The Power of Mental Models
The Fundamental Mental Model or FMM
The World of OR
The World of AND
Chapter 3: Some of the Most Common Mental Models
The Map is Not the Territory
The Circle of Competence
First Principles Thinking
The Pursuit of Knowledge That is Liquid
Thought Experiment
Second-Order Thinking
Occam's Razor
Inversion
Probabilistic Thinking
Hanlon’s Razor
Chapter 4: The Right Mental Model for Those Who Like to Make Decisions
Circle of Influence
Inversion
The Contrarian Approach to Motivation
The Why Model
The Eisenhower Matrix
The Pareto Principle
The Paradox of Choice
Chapter 5: Mental Models to Help You Become the Best Entrepreneur
Mental Models for Marketers
Anchoring Bias
Loss Aversion
Product/Market Fit
Mental Models for Financiers and Accountants
Compounding
Sunk Cost
Opportunity Cost
The Time Value of Money
The Pyramid Model
Mental Models for Business Entrepreneurs
The Idea Maze
The Problem Hypothesis
Minimum Viable Product
Mental models for CEO and Managers
Casual Loop
Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions
The Pyramid Model
99/50/1
Chapter 6: Writing and Inquisitive? The Best Mental Models to Help You
The Socratic Questioning Technique
The Why Iteration
The NLP Meta Model
The Response Bias
Chapter 7: Improving Your Parenting with Mental Models
Regret Minimization
Compounding
The 10/10/10 rule
The Pareto 80/20 Rule
The Expert Generalist
Chapter 8: Mental Models for Educators and Critical Thinkers
Mental Models of Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing
The Cognitive Bias
The Socrative Dialogue
Chapter 9: Using Mental Models to Help You to Be Happy and In Personal Development
Mental Models for Personal Development
The Circle of Competence
Parkinson’s Law
Mental Models for Personal Happiness
Entropy
The Pratfall Effect
The Spotlight Effect
Pygmalion Effect
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Chapter 10: Case Studies of Mental Models That Actually Worked!
The Modern Polymath
Charlie Munger
Elon Musk
Jack Ma
Jeff Bezos
The Big Dreams Garage
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Richard Branson
Chapter 11: A Mastermind Alliance
The Importance of Having This Passion Mate
The Importance of Forming One of These Alliances
The Mastermind Mental Model
Chapter 12: Shifting Your Paradigm to Work with Mental Models
Conclusion
