Personal Development · Library course

Mental Models for Better Decisions

Eight thinking tools for the decisions that are expensive to undo, each practised on a real call, so you catch the avoidable mistake before it costs you.

  • Beginner
  • 15 lessons
  • 35 min to complete
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What it covers

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  • Leadership
  • Personal Development

Most costly decisions go wrong in ways that were visible beforehand: a plan that needed everything to go right, a story nobody checked against similar cases, a discount that quietly became the price.

A mental model is a question you ask before you commit. This course teaches eight of them, each with one worked example, the point where it tips into overthinking, and a practice call where the wrong answer costs something. You finish by running one real decision of your own through them.

You come out pausing on the decisions that deserve it, moving quickly on the ones that don't, and catching the missing piece one question earlier.

"You've got to have models in your head. And you've got to array your experience, both vicarious and direct, on this latticework of models.", Charlie Munger

Who it's for

Founders: high-stakes calls made with incomplete information.

Leaders: decisions that ripple across a team.

Anyone sharpening their judgment: fewer avoidable, predictable mistakes.

The lessons

15 lessons, in order.

About 35 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 Answer2 min
  2. The Map Is Not the Territory2 min
  3. Find the Other Frame8 min
  4. Frames and Maps Knowledge Check1 min
  5. Start With the Failure2 min
  6. Ask What Happens Next2 min
  7. The Discount That Closes the Quarter4 min
  8. Count the Thing You Give Up2 min
  9. Testing a Plan Knowledge Check1 min
  10. Look Outside the Story2 min
  11. Follow the Incentives2 min
  12. Explain Why the Team Ships Small3 min
  13. Leave Room to Be Wrong1 min
  14. Run One Real Decision Through Three Models2 min
  15. Odds, Incentives and Margin Knowledge Check1 min

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