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Mental Models Books
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 116 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,396 ratings — published 2018
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,870 ratings — published 2005
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,593 ratings — published 2019
The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,132 ratings — published 2019
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,853 ratings — published 2003
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.18 — 22,505 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.17 — 591,421 ratings — published 2011
The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.25 — 807 ratings — published
The Art of Thinking Clearly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,243 ratings — published 2011
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,093 ratings — published 2016
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.21 — 177,682 ratings — published 1984
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,858 ratings — published 2012
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.91 — 949 ratings — published 2018
Principles: Life and Work (Audio CD)
by (shelved 25 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.10 — 68,072 ratings — published 2017
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,121 ratings — published 2007
Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.97 — 947 ratings — published 2019
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.38 — 71,792 ratings — published 2020
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 23 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,572 ratings — published 2001
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,825 ratings — published 2018
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,362 ratings — published 2008
The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.62 — 7,154 ratings — published 2011
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,169 ratings — published 2023
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.13 — 79,883 ratings — published 2019
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,688 ratings — published 2009
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,410 ratings — published 2014
Investing: The Last Liberal Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,187 ratings — published 2000
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,395 ratings — published 2018
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.98 — 30,523 ratings — published 1997
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,023 ratings — published 1990
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,379 ratings — published 2013
The Great Mental Models, Volume 4: Economics and Art (The Great Mental Models Series)
by (shelved 14 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.94 — 235 ratings — published
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,000 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,023 ratings — published 2011
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,301 ratings — published 2015
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,957 ratings — published 1980
More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,183 ratings — published
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.62 — 623 ratings — published 2016
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,946 ratings — published 2010
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,074 ratings — published 2020
Mental Models, Investing, and You. Volume #1 (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.57 — 90 ratings — published
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,417 ratings — published 2006
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,534 ratings — published 2017
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,937 ratings — published 2008
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.13 — 147,085 ratings — published 2021
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,035 ratings — published 2012
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,016 ratings — published -500
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mental-models)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,598 ratings — published 1986
Principles: Summary (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,377 ratings — published 2011
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,792 ratings — published 2023
Mastery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mental-models)
avg rating 4.26 — 49,175 ratings — published 2012
“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.”
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“Do you know what holds us back most of the time? It's our own mental models that have been fed with and tainted by misinformation.”
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