Peter Hollins

Mental Models

  • DASHAhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    “To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”
  • Blagoje Mirosavljevichar citeretfor 4 år siden
    The mistake is thinking of “important” and “urgent” as synonymous and not realizing the huge gulf of difference between the two terms and how you should prioritize them. The ability to distinguish the two is a key step in lowering your anxiety, stopping procrastination, and making sure that you are acting in an optimized way.
  • Teishar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Visualize all the dominoes, otherwise known as second-order thinking.
    This is simply trying to project into the future and extrapolate a range of consequences that you can use to conduct a cost-benefit analysis for your decisions or solutions
  • Teishar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Just because something appears to demand a quick response doesn’t mean you should give it, and just because something is slowly ticking in the background doesn’t mean you should ignore it
  • Teishar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Urgent task: These simply demand immediacy and speed, and usually come from other people.
  • mariareadshar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Hanlon’s Razor forces you to take your offended ego out of a situation and analyze it with everyone’s best intentions in mind.
  • mariareadshar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Empathy is a mental model in itself.
  • mariareadshar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Relying on humans is not a smart move because humans are, by and large, careless idiots—myself absolutely included.
  • mariareadshar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Etorre’s Observation: The other line always moves faster
  • mariareadshar citeretfor 5 år siden
    We’re a lazy species that doesn’t want to do anymore than what is necessary at the present moment.
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