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#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
What's the Best Definition of a Mental Model?
Mental models are a set of beliefs, desires and intentions. They allow you to make sense of the stories you're being told very efficiently. The best definition of a mental model is a world in the sense of science fiction or fantasy. It's your implicit understanding of what the world isnd it's very easy to see in the case of fictional universes with a few rules that are different from our own.
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