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Modern Wisdom

#253 - George Mack - Mental Models 104 - Bear Or Bull?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

George Mack is a writer and a growth marketer.

If you imagine your mind as an operating system, mental models are apps that you can install to give yourself extra functionality and improved decision making.

Expect to learn about our brand new game Bear Or Bull, how you can use anchoring to get laid, why numeracy is a superpower, whether remote working is a blessing or a curse and much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi friends, welcome back. My guest today is current modern wisdom record holder and old-time

0:06.0

friend George Mack. He is the human that tempted me to go out to Dubai or maybe we egg

0:11.5

each other on. I'm not sure. Anyway, he's the person who has spent the last month with

0:15.9

me out in Dubai and at the very beginning of that trip, we recorded Mental Models 1-04,

0:21.8

the Bull or Bear Edition. If you imagine your mind is an operating system, mental models

0:27.1

are apps that you can install to give yourself extra functionality and improve decision-making.

0:32.0

They've been popularised by guys like Charlie Munger and Shane Parish from FS.Blog and today

0:37.8

George takes us through another batch of his favourites. So, expect to learn about our brand

0:43.1

new game, Bull or Bear, how you can use anchoring to get laid. Why numeracy is a superpower,

0:49.6

our remote working is a blessing and a curse and much more in other news. This episode

0:57.4

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