mental models

“I don't think really mental models are so much about how the world works as much as they're about internal consistency.”

“So your mental model's job is basically to blind you. It's to blind you to 99.9999% of all the pertinent reality data that could possibly be salient to a decision so that you're paying attention to an extremely narrow stream of information. That's the purpose …”

“The best definition of a mental model is a world in the sense of science fiction or fantasy, right? So you've got, say, a universe like the Harry Potter universe or the Lord of the Ring universe, and so there's the world, and then there's the story that's told…”

“Exploratory reading is what creates cracks in your sort of secure mental models and allows you to see new things.”

“And the problem with mental models, also business models, also economic models, is they attract confirming data, and they repel marginalized or trivialized disconfirming data.”

“When I go work for a firm, or if I'm working in an organization, you know, stock analyst, psychologist, whatever I'm doing, mental models that we use are like local interaction models. Right? I mean, like, it's like, oh, you're using that metal model. It's eas…”

“Confusion is indicative of the fact that you are having an experience that's different than what you expected. And that confusion is necessary to start to make sense of the world yourself and the connection between the two.”

“Then I think what you have to do is you have to get beyond the rationalization to the physical experience. What I mean by that is when we are interacting with the world, we are having a sort of whole body experience with that interaction. We feel things. So wh…”

“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…”

“The best definition of a mental model is a world in the sense of science fiction or fantasy, right? So you've got, say, a universe like the Harry Potter universe or the Lord of the Ring universe, and so there's the world, and then there's the story that's told…”