Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Instead of focusing on how to become successful/happy, just figure out what you need to avoid in order to do so
• Walking through a hospital makes you realize how lucky you are if you have your health
• A first principle that George thinks about often – optimizing for time and energy
  • For every opportunity, try to ask yourself- “Will this give me more time or energy?
    • If the answer no for both, don’t proceed
• It’s important to be able to hold two opposing views in your head at the same time
  • “You want black and white thinking, It’s the shades of grey where you go to die.”
• Consume more content that has stood the test of time and less of what was produced in the last 24 hours
• Systems > Goals
• “High agency behavior is THE MOST IMPORTANT personality trait out there”
  • Being high agency = being extremely resourceful 
• Look for asymmetric opportunities in life and business (where the upside is limitless and the downside is almost negligible)
  • One of George’s favorite asymmetric actions – DM’ing people on Twitter
• Look specifically for situations in life where the first-order consequences are negative, but the second and third order consequences are positive
• EMBRACE being weird
  • In order to get anywhere worthwhile in life, you need to stand out
• Doing > reading about something
  • The fastest way to learn is in the arena

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I'm joined by long time friend of the show and all round interesting individual George MacGill to break down how we can make better decisions in all areas of our lives by using Mental Models.

If you imagine that your mind is an operating system, Mental Models are the apps you install into it which improve your ability to effectively make decisions. Today we are upgrading our minds by thinking about thinking, as we delve into some of mine & George's favourite mental models along with a mass of our best examples and resources.

Huge thank you to Social Chain for letting me record in their beautiful studio and Video Guy Ollie from SC HQ for filming everything.

Extra Stuff:

Follow George on Twitter - https://twitter.com/george__mack

Farnam Street Blog - https://fs.blog/

Farnam Street's 109 Mental Models - https://fs.blog/mental-models/

The Great Mental Models Book by Shane Parrish - https://amzn.to/2VijWDE

Shane Parrish on Art Of Manliness - https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/mental-models-decision-making/

The Psychology Of Human Misjudgement by Charlie Munger (full speech) - https://youtu.be/pqzcCfUglws

Why Not To Start A Startup by Paul Graham - http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

Check out everything I recommend - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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