Mental Models

Motivated by https://jamesclear.com/feynman-mental-models I want to create a list of mental models and learn them, so I can expand my worldview through them.

Check https://jamesclear.com/mental-models

Mental Models in Business

Economics

• Common Knowledge
• Comparative Advantage
• Diversification
• Economies of Scale
• Efficient Market Hypothesis
• Game Theory
• Incentives (Reward and Punishment)
• Scarcity
• Supply and Demand

Psychology

• Anchoring
• Classical Conditioning (Pavlov)
• Commitment and Consistency Bias
• Hyperbolic Discounting
• Illusion of Control
• Loss Aversion
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• Mere Exposure Effect
• Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
• Reciprocity
• Status Quo Bias
• Survivorship Bias
• Tribalism

Thinking

• The Scientific Method
• Inversion
• Surfing or “Riding the Wave”
• Working Backward

Mental Models in Science

• Biology
• Evolution by Natural Selection
• Equilibrium (Homeostasis)
• Heredity
• Signalling

Chemistry

• Activation Energy
• Atomic Theory
• Autocatalysis
• Entropy (The Second Law of Thermodynamics)
• Catalysts

Physics

• Critical Mass
• Relativity
• Velocity

Mental Models in Math and Engineering

Engineering

• Break Points
• Leverage
• Margin of Safety
• Redundancy

Mathematics

• Normal Distribution (Bell Curve)
• Permutations and Combinations
• Power Laws