The Mental Model of Allowing

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Spencer: In chemistry, creating an alloy is when you combine two different elements. And the idea here is you can take a couple of different personality aspects and combine it with something that is unnatural to you. So I was a former athlete and sales and being gregarious tends to be a trait that is a little bit more common in athletes. But on the other side of the spectrum listening and kind of the technical skills are a little bit less common.

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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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