Posts Tagged with “thinking”
22 posts touching on thinking.
- Everything humans do is natural
It's a silly, self-centered mind trick to call anything we do as "natural" or "unnatural".
- How To Live An Asymmetric Life
Graham Weaver, Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Founder of Alpine Investors, shares four ways to live an asymmetric life as part of the GSB 2023 Last Lecture Series.
- There's no Us and Them
Ignoring or brushing over the opposing view creates a mental dishonesty.
- How To Lie With Statistics
A concise guide on common techniques for distorting statistics.
- Happiness hypothesis
Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
A guide to wealth and happiness
- Finite vs. Infinite Games
Those aiming to play outdo those aiming to win.
- Mental Models #1: Address "Important"; Ignore "Urgent"
Separate priorities from impostors
- Mental Models #10: What Would Bayes Do
Calculate probabilities and predict the future based on real events
- Mental Models #11: Do It Like Darwin
Seek real, honest truth in a situation
- Mental Models #12: Think With System 2
Think analytically instead of emotionally
- Mental Models #13: Peer Review Your Perspectives
Understand the consensus view and why you might differ
- Mental Models #14: Find Your Own Flaws
Scrutinize yourself before others can
- Mental Models #15: Separate Correlation From Causation
Understand what truly needs to be addressed to solve a problem
- Mental Models #2: Visualize All the Dominoes
Make decisions as informed as possible
- Mental Models #3: Make Reversible Decisions
Remove indecisions and have a bias to action
- Mental Models #4: Seek "Satisfiction"
Achieve your priorities and ignore what doesn't matter
- Mental Models #5: Stay within 40% - 70%
Balance information with action
- Mental Models #6: Minimize Regret
Consult the future you on decisions
- Mental Models #7: Ignore "Black Swans"
Understand how outliers shouldn't change your thinking
- Mental Models #8: Look for Equilibrium Points
Find real patterns in data and not be fooled
- Mental Models #9: Wait for the Regression to the Mean
Find real patterns in data and not be fooled