#069 - George MacGill - Mental Models 101 - How To Make Better Decisions

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

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 from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is happening friends? Welcome to the Modern Wisdom podcast and today's guest
0:06.4	is someone I've been looking forward to sitting down with for quite a while. This
0:11.0	actually marks the beginning of a series of three episodes I recorded at
0:16.3	Social Chains Headquarters in Manchester. You will notice a fantastic uplift in
0:22.3	audio and video quality if you head to the YouTube channel. I had serious
0:26.6	podcast studio envy. So that may be where the the next investment goes after
0:33.2	seeing how beautiful there's was. But on to today's episode with George MacGill
0:37.9	we're talking all things mental models. This is a branch of learning which is
0:45.0	emerged from the back of Charlie Munger Warren Buffett's business partner and
0:49.3	been popularised by guys like Shane Parrish from FS.Blog. And as humble as he is
0:54.8	George has a fantastic understanding of this entire subject area. They are
1:01.2	general thinking concepts. So a lattice work of approaches which you can layer
1:09.2	on top of each other which help you to think. No one teaches us how to think
1:14.8	we just presume that it emerges naturally but you can take the best principles
1:19.8	and insights from different industries and actually create models of how to
1:25.0	think from them. So yeah I absolutely love this episode. I found it super useful
1:30.4	for me and I'm certain that you will as well. Please welcome George MacGill.
1:50.8	George MacGill, social chain has joined me. How are you? I'm not so bad. How are you?
1:55.6	Very good. Thank you. George Mac on Instagram. Twitter. No, no, no. Twitter still not
2:02.0	transferred across on Instagram. No, no, no, no, I need to. I like it. So what we're
2:06.2	talking about today, George? So I guess we're more like a theme of what we've been
2:10.2	chatting about for like the last six to nine months right? Which is like
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