TIP336: Mental Models Used by Billionaires w/ Sahil Bloom
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
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🗓️ 14 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TI-P. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Investors Podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm your host, Trey Lockerby, and I'm so excited to have Sahil Bloom with me on the show today. |
| 0:11.6 | Sahil is a VP at a private equity firm as well as a frequent contributor to C-NBC. |
| 0:17.6 | He also holds a degree in economics as well as a Masters in Public Policy, both from Stanford University. |
| 0:24.6 | Sahil is a rising star in finance who recently blew up on Twitter going from 500 followers or so to now well over 100,000 followers all in about 6 months time. |
| 0:35.2 | Primarily due to his thoughtful stories on business and his simple breakdown of complex topics. |
| 0:40.8 | So we're going to discuss some of those topics on the show today starting with mental models. |
| 0:45.6 | For some, this might be a useful refresher and to others, this might provide new insights as to how to up your investment game. |
| 0:53.1 | So please enjoy my discussion with Sahil Bloom. |
| 0:57.1 | You are listening to the Investors Podcast where we study the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most. |
| 1:08.7 | We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected. |
| 1:12.1 | Alright everybody, I'm here with Sahil Bloom, who I would say is the MVP of Twitter for the last six months. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm really excited to have you on the show. Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah, it's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me, Tray. |
| 1:34.1 | Sahil, one thing I'm incredibly impressed by is your ability to distill down these really complex concepts into these really bite-sized formats, whether it's a tweet or a sound bite on CNBC. |
| 1:46.1 | And a useful one I found recently was your threat on mental models. |
| 1:51.1 | So I want to walk through each one one by one and I want to start with first principles. |
| 1:56.1 | Billionaires like Elon Musk have been a proponent for thinking and strategizing from a first principles framework for a long time. |
| 2:05.1 | But how do you describe this framework and what's a good example of it working in the real world? |
| 2:10.1 | Yeah, this is a really important one, Tray. I mean, this is a foundational mental model for really for driving non-linear outcomes as I think about it. |
| 2:19.1 | When you have complex problems and you're in complex systems and situations, being able to ground yourself in fundamental truths, the first principles of something is so so important, whether you're in business, an investor, solving problems on a day-to-day basis, really, in anything. |
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