214: Gabriel Weinberg | How Mental Models Boost Super Thinking
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.
What We Discuss with Gabriel Weinberg:- What are mental models, and how can they be applied to make your life run more efficiently and effectively?
- How mental models used primarily in physics, economics, biology, and math can be easily adjusted for everyday decisions.
- What a South American tribe that can only count to three and our own grade school experiences with multiplication tables can teach us about the power of math as a mental model.
- Why you should be second-guessing your natural intuition during the decision-making process, and how you can use mental models to do it.
- First principles versus conventional wisdom for approaching familiar situations in an innovative way.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this show. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.5 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.1 | My friend Gabriel Weinberg is something of a genius. |
| 0:11.0 | He's the founder of Duck.go, the search engine that actually doesn't track you, which even |
| 0:15.2 | now is a pretty novel concept. |
| 0:16.9 | Today, though, we're not talking about search and privacy, but about mental models. |
| 0:22.0 | Mental models help us understand and internalize complex concepts so that we can use them for |
| 0:26.4 | ourselves. |
| 0:27.4 | Today, Gabriel and I will discuss quite a few mental models, teach you how to use them |
| 0:31.6 | and give you a lot of tools. |
| 0:33.6 | You can leverage to look at and understand complicated concepts, cognitive biases, and |
| 0:38.3 | problems much more easily, giving you a more accurate and comprehensive view of the world |
| 0:43.1 | around you. |
| 0:44.1 | It might sound complex, but it's actually the opposite. |
| 0:47.3 | This episode will help you make better decisions more reliably and see through smoke and mirrors, |
| 0:52.2 | even if someone is intentionally trying to deceive you. |
| 0:55.0 | That is a skill set worth having. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm at Gabriel through my network, and I'm teaching you how to create amazing connections |
| 1:01.2 | for yourself for personal and professional reasons. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm doing it for free over at 6 Minute Networking, which is at jordanharbinger.com slash course. |
| 1:10.0 | By the way, most of the guests on the show actually subscribe to the course and the newsletter, |
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