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Mental models that apply across disciplines (with Blas Moros)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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Spencer of the Three Buckets

Spencer: An idea that captures some pattern in the world, and then you can kind of spot that pattern and know something about it through the mental model is a great way of putting it. So to start, let's talk about the three buckets. What are the three buckets? Spencer: If an idea passes these three buckets, if it aligns with what physics, math, chemistry tell us, or biology tells us, it's an idea we can bank on. And one of the key examples of this is reciprocation.

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