How to Believe What You Believe

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Spencer Greenberg: Always search for evidence that your beliefs are already correct. He says surround yourself only with people that think like you and avoid people that have opposite opinions. Blah's: Think of everything in binaries, it's true or it's false, it's good or it's bad,. It is that or it isn't that instead of thinking in terms of shades of gray and probabilities and nuance.

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What is a mental model? What are "the three buckets"? How can Galilean relativity and alloying apply to non-science parts of life? What is the goal-gradient hypothesis? Why is it useful to know about signalling, especially in a social context? How can the concept of marginal safety apply outside of investing? More generally, why should people learn about mental models?

Blas Moros is writer, thinker, and entrepreneur. He's the CEO of Frontier and the founder of Latticework. Find more about him at blas.com, or follow him on Twitter at @blasmoros.

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