Mental Models Quotes

“Humans operate on millennia-old hardware. We can comprehend linear relationships, but have trouble processing accelerating rates of change.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try to bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. You’ve got to have mental models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience, both vicarious and direct, on this latticework of models.”
― Charlie Munger

“It can be tough to recognize that you need to leave something behind to be able to get where you want to go. Sometimes the reason we have carried something in our pack for so long is that someone we trusted told us we would need it. Even when it has become obvious the advice given us does not match our experience, it can be difficult to reconcile the advice with the reality of our situation. Consequently, many will continue carrying unnecessary burdens. While this added weight might be manageable walking on flat ground when the terrain becomes more demanding and the pace more important, it will become increasingly difficult to keep up. This is why an approach to life that worked at one point does not always work at another point. If you are seeking to maximize your life, you cannot do so without making tough choices.”
― Nathan Mellor, Sleeping Giants: Authentic Stories and Insights for Building a Life That Matters

“What separates good thinkers from great thinkers is:

1) The number of mental models at their disposal;
2) The accuracy of those models; and
3) How quickly they update them when they're wrong.”
― Shane Parrish

“Do you know what holds us back most of the time? It's our own mental models that have been fed with and tainted by misinformation.”
― Mohith Agadi

“The greatest challenge for people seeking to build a life that matters is not the opinion of others. The most significant obstacle is the mental model they have chosen for themselves. Although there is a risk of people thinking too highly of themselves, the more common problem is that people do not think highly enough of themselves.”
― Dr. Nathan Mellor, Sleeping Giants: Authentic Stories and Insights for Building a Life That Matters

“You can't change mental models until you change mental models.”
― Aidan McCullen, Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations and Life

“I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person’s brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.”
― Charlie Munger

“Your mental model may make you behave as though you know everything until you realize that you don't.”
― Mohith Agadi