Personal Development · Library course

Mental Models for Better Decisions

A working set of the thinking tools the best decision-makers reach for, so you stop repeating avoidable mistakes.

  • Beginner
  • 8 lessons
  • 52 min to complete
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What it covers

What your people will learn.

  • Leadership
  • Personal Development

Smart people still make predictable mistakes, usually by running every problem through one familiar lens.

A mental model is a reliable thinking tool, and the people who decide well keep a whole kit of them. They know when to invert a problem, when to think one move further, what they're really giving up, and when they're fooling themselves. This course gives you that working set and the judgment for which one to reach for, each taught on real decisions, with the situations where it leads you wrong named right next to the ones where it saves you.

You've got to hang your experience on a latticework of models in your head., Charlie Munger

You come out catching your blind spots earlier, seeing options you used to miss, and deciding under uncertainty without freezing or guessing.

Who it's for

Founders: high-stakes calls with incomplete information.

Leaders: decisions that ripple across a team.

Anyone sharpening judgment: fewer avoidable, predictable mistakes.

The lessons

8 lessons, in order.

About 52 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.

  1. The Lens Comes Before the Answer7 min
  2. The Map Is Not the Territory6 min
  3. Start With the Failure6 min
  4. Ask What Happens Next6 min
  5. Count the Thing You Give Up7 min
  6. Look Outside the Story6 min
  7. Follow the Incentives6 min
  8. Leave Room to Be Wrong8 min

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