A mental model is an explanation of how something works. It is a concept, framework, or worldview that you carry around in your mind to help you interpret the world and understand the relationship between things.
Mental models guide your perception and behavior. They are the thinking tools that you use to understand life, make decisions, and solve problems. Mental models are imperfect, but useful. All perspectives hold some truth. None of them contain the complete truth.
“If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it”. — Richard Feynman
The first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. - Charlie Munger
I basically load my head full of mental models. — Naval Ravikant
Some of the Powerful Mental Models are:
1. Inversion: Inversion is a powerful mental model to improve your thinking because…
