Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Take extreme ownership of your life – view everything as your responsibility
  • “I always go back to the thought experiment of having two identical versions of yourself. The one that takes extreme ownership over everything will always outperform the one who doesn’t.”
• No matter what happens in life and no matter what goes wrong, your response should always be – “GOOD”
  • View EVERYTHING as an opportunity
• Become someone who thrives with disorder
• The people you surround yourself with influence your output and way of thinking way more than you might imagine
• “Whatever’s available to you, you have to instill willpower to avoid… Given enough time, given enough of a lack of sleep, you’re probably going to give in at some point.”
• Mental Model: George McGill’s Razor
  • When presented with two options, choose the one that brings about the greater amount of luck
• Remember – you don’t always have to have an opinion 
  • Charlie Munger refuses to have a position on anything unless he can state the other side of an argument better than the other side can 
• George challenges everyone to answer this famous question from Peter Thiel:
  • “What do you believe to be true that the rest of the world disagrees with you on?”
• There are MANY things we do today that people 50 years from now will look back on as being absolutely idiotic
  • On a personal note – there are things you’re doing now which you’ll cringe at just 5 years from now

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I'm joined by long time friend of the show and all round great human George MacGill to re enter the world of Mental Models.

Mental Models are tools you can use to 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 from Jocko Willink, Paul Graham, Ben Bergeron, Navil Ravikant, Nassim Taleb, David Wong, Rick & Morty and many more.

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