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#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is Your Mental Morter's Job to Blind You?

Mental models play a role in decision making, but to what extent? They act like the blinders they put on horses. Your mental mortal's job is basically to blind you. It's to blind you to 99% of all the pertinent reality data that could possibly be salient to a decision. And then the problemis, if the world is shifted or changed, then you're blind to that change as well.

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