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#155 — Mental Models

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Best Way to Conceptualize Is Not the Territory

Mental models are ideas and means that you think everyone should have in their cognitive tool kit. Ijus listed a few here that we could touch the map is not the territory. We need maps to operate because our brains can't handle that amount of details. But territoryis change. And if the map becomes the goal in ad of itself, you lose track of what's actually going on in the territory.

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