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124: Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray

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The Map Is Not the Territorium From the Great Mental Models

Our capacity for perceiving information is about 11 million bits per second, but your conscious attention, your focus, is limited to forty bits per second. So that's a very effective model for the point that he's making, that you can't know everything. I want to point out here, josh mentions that this book wis published before great mental models. And i feel like had i not read the great mental models before this one, i would be much less motivated to do so. It would be very much more like pie in the sky. Lets jus think about this instead of, let's actually do this.

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