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Mental Models: How To Clarify Your Thoughts And Make Better Decisions Every Day
7 mental models for eliminating dumb and costly decisions
Life is about making decisions, and the wrong decisions can ruin your life.
Avoiding the wrong decisions, or making better ones isn’t something you just wish for. It’s learned.
What separates the most successful people, entrepreneurs, and leaders from others isn’t just their talent and competence. It’s the decisions they make with the resources they have.
The best decisions derive from having and following the right mental models. Because it’s not really the decisions per se, it’s the thinking that goes into them.
When you approach a problem with the appropriate mental models, you’re likely to decide as opposed to guessing or relying on gut feelings alone.
I have made very important decisions without really thinking everything through. It only led to regrets when the outcomes arrived.
I wanted to improve my ability to make decisions that affect my life. That’s not to say all my decisions will be successful. The goal is to always reduce the likelihood of error and misjudgments.
