How to Unbiase Your Mental Model

A mental model is never going to be a perfect representation of your understanding of the world, but it's the simplified view that allows you to act in the world. We can only hold so much information and act on so much information. And we want to minimize the distance between those two things. There are two ways to kind of minimize that distance. You can extract more information, unbiased, about the actual world, and adjust your mental model to fit that or you can bias the sorts of information about objective reality that you choose to consider.