What is happening friends? Welcome to the Modern Wisdom podcast and today's guest

is someone I've been looking forward to sitting down with for quite a while. This

actually marks the beginning of a series of three episodes I recorded at

Social Chains Headquarters in Manchester. You will notice a fantastic uplift in

audio and video quality if you head to the YouTube channel. I had serious

podcast studio envy. So that may be where the the next investment goes after

seeing how beautiful there's was. But on to today's episode with George MacGill

we're talking all things mental models. This is a branch of learning which is

emerged from the back of Charlie Munger Warren Buffett's business partner and

been popularised by guys like Shane Parrish from FS.Blog. And as humble as he is

George has a fantastic understanding of this entire subject area. They are

general thinking concepts. So a lattice work of approaches which you can layer

on top of each other which help you to think. No one teaches us how to think

we just presume that it emerges naturally but you can take the best principles

and insights from different industries and actually create models of how to

think from them. So yeah I absolutely love this episode. I found it super useful

for me and I'm certain that you will as well. Please welcome George MacGill.

George MacGill, social chain has joined me. How are you? I'm not so bad. How are you?

Very good. Thank you. George Mac on Instagram. Twitter. No, no, no. Twitter still not

transferred across on Instagram. No, no, no, no, I need to. I like it. So what we're

talking about today, George? So I guess we're more like a theme of what we've been

chatting about for like the last six to nine months right? Which is like

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