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How to Escape the American Rat Race EP 04
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In this episode we will be discussing mental models! What is a mental model you may ask? Great question amigos and amigas! Here is the answer:
- Definition of Mental Model - A mental models is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world.
- Definition 2 of Mental Models - A mental model is a kind of internal symbol or representation of external reality, hypothesized to play a major role in cognition, reasoning and decision-making. Kenneth Craik suggested in 1943 that the mind constructs "small-scale models" of reality that it uses to anticipate events.
Some specific mental models we will be discussing are:
Hanlon's Razor - “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness.”
Occam's Razor - “Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.”
Cognitive Biases - “Tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgments.”
Arguing From First Principles - “A first principle is a basic, foundational, self-evident proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.”
Proximate Vs Root Cause - “A proximate cause is an event which is closest to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result. This exists in contrast to a higher-level ultimate cause (or distal cause) which is usually thought of as the ‘real’ reason something occurred.”
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