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Sanjay Kumar Mohindroo Sanjay Kumar Mohindroo. skm.stayingalive.in Discover these essential mental models to sharpen your decision-making. Unlock better thinking and avoid common pitfalls with these must-know tools. The Map Is Not the Territory: Don’t Confuse Reality with Perception
 Our perception of reality is always a simplified version, like a map compared to the actual terrain. Maps help…

Mental Models are the Toolkit of our Mind

“Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try to bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. You’ve got to have mental models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience, both vicarious and direct, on this latticework of models.” ― Charlie Munger Mental…

Applying Critical Thinking on First Principles Thinking

What is Thinking? Thinking is the activity of our mind. We term it as part of our cognitive process occurring in the apparatus of our brain. We consciously use our brain to make sense of the experience which we term as sense experience. Although, our brain goes about thinking subconsciously that is again a part of our cognitive process. In our normal parlance, we attribute thinking primarily to…