Best Mental Models Quotes

"The mental models that came out of The Beginning of Infinity are transformational."

"Once you understand these mental models, the whole world of business kind of opens up."

"It's really good to appreciate how you're evolving regularly so that you can see that actually my entire mental model of the world is different."

"Mental models matter a lot. It is not enough just to come up with the right answer."

"To be effective in Python, it requires a certain understanding of a couple of core mental models of the language, understanding of some of the things the language comes with like the built-in data types and the built-in functions, and a little bit of an understanding of what's available in the standard library."

"Apply mental models. You want to build a collection of these. This is a lot better than how most people make decisions."

"Comparison slots - we have a finite amount of slots in our brain that we can put people in."

"We want to help you think in computational modes of thought."

"Our mental models, formed through analogies, shape our perception and understanding."

"As you gain experience with interfaces, you get faster, building mental models of how to do things efficiently."

"Your mind is a story creator. It automatically creates connections between things, trying to figure out how the world works."

"That's a great way of describing it, it's learning to be aware of other people's feelings and the contents of their mind."

"Mental models are helpful but they're only going to get you so far sometimes you just got to think more deeply on a topic."

"It's still a tool and I think it's a good way of, it's a good mental model to look at it that way."

"Society of Minds: many different agents working together produce incredibly better results."

"Understanding a subject is like having a mental model of that subject in your mind."

"Ultimately, we're going to be able to build or train systems that basically have mental world models."

"Being optimistic isn't the point. The point is to build strong mental models that help you stay strong when things go wrong."

"So this is like one of the mental models like so manga is the 25 000 human misjudgment they're like 25 models like that 30 models if you actually understood and used those models and especially when you overlay models you get a huge advantage over the rest of humanity."

"...four mental models... input and output, half-life, second order consequences, presence of feedback."

"Human beings by nature come up with mental models of how the world works."

"The feats of intuition that we see, attest to the subtlety of our mental models."

"my idea of a mental model started out with how something works and now it includes all four of these components: how it works, what its limitations are, how to work around them, and how to anticipate confusion on the part of people who I'm going to be working with."

"The power of mental models: learn faster, make best practices your baseline."

"The simplest mental model is that one frame of a moving picture of a video file is just a picture."

"Mental models allow you to see a problem through a different lens. You can adopt a different persona."

"A mental model is an internal representation of an external reality based on learning and experience."

"The mental models feel true and familiar; they fit you like a glove because they're constructed from your past."

"You're gonna need to do self-learning, you're gonna need to build the real mental models."

"Any time you want to make a rational decision, when the outcome of that decision is important enough for you to spend some energy on it, you should go through the mental models that we’ve discussed in this series in a checklist-manner."

"You're learning to create mental models, visual representations of understanding, and you have to build on those models over time."

"All of our mental models are low resolution, oversimplified, circumstantial, or possibly just completely wrong."

"The best mental models I have found have come through evolution, game theory, and Charlie Munger."

"It's really important to understand the mental model of what a page is in SvelteKit."

"The mental model of anything is essentially your mind's idea of how the different components fit together."

"Mental models give you a huge head start in life."

"The top 1% build out these rules or mental models and they actually write them down in a rule book and they adhere to those rules."

"It's often more dangerous to have mental models where you stop there than to have none because then you're academic again, you're looking at things in this arbitrary way when the world is much more subtle and high-level performance is much more subtle."

"The internal working model is a blueprint for future relationships."

"We just take tiny little bits of data and update the model we keep in our head."

"Really all we ever have at our disposal are our mental models."

"Cloning is a great mental model, another great mental model is doing things which have asymmetry."

"The mental model of understanding compounding is the wonder of the world."

"As you make changes in your mental models, you see the world differently, you become a different person."

"Humans have mental models and they use these models to imagine how the world would unfold in various different ways."

"...we want to think Beyond this single session usage and over time you know how people react to these systems might change their mental model might change and how AI actually works might change so we need to really think about this temporal Dimension more carefully."

"The emptiness of mental models or the relativity, the non-absolute nature of any kind of ideas or constructs or networks of ideas that we have."

"What separates the expert from the novice is these very detailed mental models that they have stored in long-term memory."

"The act of building that mental model... tends to train our brain to figure out what to pay attention to and what to ignore much faster."

"For any linear system, no matter what it represents, there are some good mental models that we can use to understand what it means."

"It's all about equipping you with a mental model, a set of concepts, as well as some practical skills via which you can bring to bear solutions to problems in other domains entirely."

"One of the most important things I can do for you is give you that mental model with which you can then interpret that image."

"...we have these mental models these attachment Styles and we bring them with us and we end up making the same mistakes over and over again."