How to Think: 10 Mental Models for Sharper Reasoning
Most of education teaches you what to think. Almost none of it teaches you how to think. Yet the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your decisions, and your decisions determine the trajectory of your life. Here are 10 mental models that fundamentally change how you approach problems. 1. First Principles Thinking Strip away assumptions. Reason from fundamental truths. Most people think by analogy: “This is like that, so I’ll do what others did.” First principles thinking asks: “What do I know to be absolutely true? What can I build from there?” ...