Shane Parrish Tag Archive

Know when your maps are not useful

(Excerpt from The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish) But what physicists do so well, and most of us do so poorly, is that they carefully delimit what Newtonian and Einsteinian...

August 11, 2020| Circle of Competence, Fallibility, Map Is Not Territory, Structure drives behaviour Read More

Maps need updating

(Excerpt from The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish) We create static rules or policies that deal with the map but forget that we exist in a constantly changing world. When we...

August 11, 2020| Fallibility, Map Is Not Territory, Structure drives behaviour Read More

News are abstractions of reality

(Excerpt from The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish) The truth is, the only way we can navigate the complexity of reality is through some sort of abstraction. When we read the...

August 11, 2020| Map Is Not Territory Read More

A good decision may be about avoiding the need to solve problems later

(Excerpt from The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish) Peter Bevelin, put it best: “I don’t want to be a great problem solver. I want to avoid problems—prevent them...

August 9, 2020| Via Negativa Read More

Ego prevents us from getting necessary feedback

(Excerpt from The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish) First, we’re so afraid about what others will say about us that we fail to put our ideas out there and subject them to...

August 9, 2020| Ego Read More

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