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The Jordan Harbinger Show

214: Gabriel Weinberg | How Mental Models Boost Super Thinking

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Gabriel Weinberg is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.

Transcript

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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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