100 MENTAL MODELS

The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.

—Charlie Munger

I basically load my head full of mental models.

—Naval Ravikant

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

—Aristotle

If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this universe, into parts—physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on—remember that nature does not know it!

—Richard Feynman

Specialization is for insects.

—Robert A. Heinlein

The book explains 100 mental models to make better decisions and think critically.

These models do not tell you what you think, rather they teach you how to think , and encourage you to think critically. 

Here are some examples of how mental models will improve your life:

• Do you want to create a successful business? 

Leverage, Niches and Scale models will guide you.

Stoicism, Anti-fragility and Resilience give you the vision and strength you need.

Plato's Cave metaphor will give you the answer. 

Take a look at the Incentives mental model.

The 25 biases that Charlie Munger details in Psychology of Human Misjudgment will help you.

This program is for people who want to thinking in a multidisciplinary way.

The book includes the full and expanded text The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger , considered by many to be his best writing.

Along with the book, we’ve also included some extra bonuses for you in here, to help you really understand and get a hold of these ideas.

Cards are small summaries of each model, like notes, for easy reference.

Quotes use sentences of great figures as a reminder of each model.

Mental Maps are schemes where the different models are classified by fields of knowledge, for quick reference and verification.

To learn and remember each idea in a simple way.

Template to identify fallacies, biases, and mental models in each situation.

Additionally, we have selected and included 50 of the best books in history , that will help us improve our thinking process, including:

• Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
• The Autobiography ofBenjamin Franklin
• The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
• The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
• The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

... among many others

You can find the entire list of books here .