Mental Models Quotes

“Architect Wernher Von Braun had this to say on the matter: “One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
― Peter Hollins, Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving.

“una manera de corregir las predicciones a partir de evidencia relevante, lo que también se conoce como probabilidad condicional o probabilidad inversa”.”
― Peter Hollins, Modelos mentales: 30 técnicas asociadas al pensamiento que te harán sobresalir del resto y perfeccionar la toma de decisiones, el análisis lógico y la ... Hollins Español nº 5)

“Resistance lies between you and what you want.”
― Peter Hollins, Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving.

“we will probably realize that we need far fewer things than we originally thought and that our desires are masquerading as needs.”
― Peter Hollins, Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving.

“Parkinson’s Law states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Whatever deadline you give yourself, big or small, that’s how long you’ll take to complete the work. If you give yourself a relaxed deadline, you avoid being disciplined; if you give yourself a tight deadline, you can draw on your self-discipline. Parkinson observed that as bureaucracies expanded, their efficiency decreased instead of increased. The more space and time people were given, the more they took—something that he realized was applicable to a wide range of other circumstances. The general form of the law became that increasing the size of something decreases its efficiency.”
― Peter Hollins, Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving.