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Inversion: a mental model

Inversion: a mental model

Is a thinking model to get insight by turning a question backward, that is, by studying how to create non-X.

It is in the nature of things that many hard problems are best solved only when they are addressed backward", the great mathematician Jacobi noted. Instead of thinking how can you be happy, ask how you can be miserable and avoid that.

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