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How to improve your thinking skills, and creativity.
“You can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. You must have a latticework of models in your head.” — Charlie Munger You can make much better decisions if you learn how to think better. How do you think better? Mental models. After a decade at Microsoft, I’d grown disenchanted with frameworks. I’d …
“The mind isn’t limited by what it knows, but by what it refuses to learn.”— JD Meier This isn’t just about limited thinking. It’s about three blind spots that quietly hold you back: weak thinking a fragile ego a closed mind. We all fall into these traps at times. But when these habits go unchecked, …
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin One of my favorite tools for thinking through thinking is the Ladder of Inference. You can use the Ladder of Inference to avoid cognitive biases or work through them better. The Ladder of Inference is especially effective to help …
“There is no such thing as immaculate perception.” — Jerry Kang I set out to build a simple library of cognitive biases. I was sick of stumbling on biases here and there. I wanted to create a more definitive map of cognitive biases so that I could figure out how to think and do better. …
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman Cognitive biases affect us every day, whether we realize it or not. Every day, we make countless decisions that impact our lives, from small choices like what to wear or eat, to bigger ones …
