40 Mental Models to Expand Your Thinking (and Your Life)
If you want to take advantage of all that life offers, you need to learn HOW to think, not WHAT to think. This book will teach you HOW to think.
Throughout your life, you've had various people tell you what to think.
Your parents say you should have these set of beliefs.
Your friends say X,Y, and Z are cool (or aren't cool) and that you should follow their lead.
Your teachers say that so and so career paths are good and others aren't.
In general, you just have a bunch of people telling you how the world supposedly works.
But what about you? What do you think?
More importantly how do you think?
Because let's be honest...there's not a whole bunch of critical thinking that goes into the decision-making of most people.
Most people don't know how to think, so they'll just go along with what to think.
And unfortunately, what to think is changing by the day. There's nothing solid underlying it. It's just based on fads, trends, and convenience.
So after a lifetime of this "what" type of thinking, what's the end result?
- Poor health
- Subpar finances
- Bad relationships
- Low self-confidence and low self-esteem
- Wasted time, wasted effort, wasted life
I mean, you don't have to look far to see that many people aren't living the life they want to live.
Why?
They don't know how to think.
More importantly, they don't know how to think in the right way, that more or less follows natural laws.
After reading this book, you'll be one of the few people that knows how to think and as a result, live a life that is by design, not by default.
What's inside:
In this book, you'll be exposed to 40 mental models in the realm of psychology, philosophy, productivity, and general self-improvement.
These mental models are adapted from the works and thinking of some of the greatest minds in human history.
You'll get:
- A definition of the mental model
- A breakdown of the definition
- Contextual examples on how the mental model is used
- Application to real life scenarios.
While these mental models are not exhaustive (there are literally THOUSANDS of them), they're designed to help you streamline your thinking so you can cut through the ambiguity of life and make informed decisions.
In a world where so much is changing so fast, you need to ground yourself on solid principles that allow you to take advantage of critical thinking.
This book is one step on that ladder.