No model captures the richness of human nature. Models are supposed to simplify things, which is why even the best are flawed. But they’re necessary. Our minds are full of models. We couldn’t function without them. And we often function pretty well because some of our models are decent approximations of reality. “All models are wrong,” the statistician George Box observed, “but some are useful.” The fox/hedgehog model is a starting point, not the end.
