How To Make Better Decisions With Smart Mental Models with Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
The Mindvalley Podcast
Mindvalley
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Do you have the systems in place to ensure you succeed? In this episode we hear from MIT graduates, Gabriel Weinberg, creator of DuckDuckGo, together with Lauren McCann, talk about how we can use mental models to become more focused, accurate, reliable and disciplined on our personal growth journey. Learn the top mental models to make smarter decisions and upgrade your personal growth, your career, relationships and your life. Tune into this episode today.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:05.2 | You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and |
| 0:09.2 | thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, |
| 0:16.6 | and work. |
| 0:17.6 | Hi folks, welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | As you know, life is about decisions. We make decisions, probably hundreds of them on a constant basis and the quality of your life is really going to be determined by the quality of your decisions. |
| 0:32.0 | So what if they were specific? by the quality of your decisions. |
| 0:32.8 | So what if they were specific mental models that you could use so that you could |
| 0:37.8 | make smarter decisions? |
| 0:40.2 | Think of the impact of this. |
| 0:42.0 | Think of just how much your relationships or your investing or your business would change. |
| 0:48.0 | If you could upgrade your decision-making capabilities by 5, 10, 20%. |
| 0:53.2 | What if, significantly more? |
| 0:55.3 | On a podcast today, we have Gabriel Weinberg |
| 0:58.0 | and Lauren McCann and both of these individuals |
| 1:02.3 | are MIT graduates. |
| 1:03.9 | Let's start with Lauren. |
| 1:04.8 | Lauren has a PhD from MIT in operational research, |
| 1:08.4 | worked in the pharmaceutical industry for nine years, |
| 1:11.7 | and Gabriel is the founder of Duck |
| 1:13.7 | Go, the Renegade search engine that does 37 million searches a day. |
| 1:19.2 | It is a competitor to Google. So I bet you're going to find this conversation |
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