Shane Parrish: The Great Mental Models
Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits
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I Love Second Order Thinking
I love this mental model because it really challenges you when you're thinking about solving or coming up with a solution. I love this idea of thinking about all the different knock on effects, all the dominoes that might happen from that first solution and forcing yourself to think again. So let's throw around some examples of second order thinking. It just always bugs me when I'm out and about in my neighborhood. When urban neighborhoods build large apartment blocks, and they fail to think about traffic and parking conditions as a result. The Olympics is another great example. Everybody goes and says, let's build amazing sports facilities for the Olympics. But then they don't ask themselves the famous, famous mistake
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