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Blog postWe often talk about mental models in the context of business, investing, and careers. But mental models can also help with other areas, like parenting. Here are 5 principle-based models you can apply to any family, any situation, and any child.
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Just a few days ago, I saw a three-year-old wandering around at 10:30 at night and wondered if he was lost or jet-lagged. The parent came over and explained that they believed in children setting their own sleep schedule.
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Blog postIn episode #37 of The Knowledge Project, we talked with professional poker player Annie Duke about thinking in probabilities, something good poker players do all the time. At the poker table or in life, it’s useful to think in probabilities versus absolutes based on all the information you have available to you.
Probabilistic thinking leads you to ask yourself, how confident am I in this prediction? What information would impact this confidence?
Bayes’ Theorem Bayes’ theorem i -
Blog postHow many of us regard love and happiness as a place? A box to tick off, a destination we get to? We often conceptualize these two things as goals. Is this responsible for why we are so devastated when they leave after being in our lives for a while?
What do love and happiness have to do with time?
Recently I read The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli. In it he writes,
We can think of the world as made up of things. Of substances. Of entities. Of something that is. Or we -
Blog postMath has long been the language of science, engineering, and finance, but can math help you feel calm on a turbulent flight? Get a date? Make better decisions? Here are some heroic ways math shows up in our everyday life.
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Sounds intellectually sophisticated, doesn’t it? Other than sounding really smart at after-work cocktails, what could be the benefit of understanding where math and physics permeate your life?
Well, what if I told you that math and physics can hel -
Blog post“We shall never have more time.
We have, and have always had,
all the time there is.”
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Despite having been published in 1910, Arnold Bennett’s book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day remains a valuable resource on living a meaningful life within the constraints of time. In the book, Bennett addresses one of our oldest questions: how can we make the best use of our lives? How can we make the best use of our time?
Bennett begins by reflecting on our counterintu -
Blog postOne of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position. The person who finds themselves in a strong position can take advantage of circumstances while others are forced into a series of poor choices.
Strong positions are not an accident. Weak positions aren’t bad luck.
Telling someone they need to put themselves in a strong position is useless. Everyone knows they need a strong foundation to build a house that -
Blog postThought experiments are a classic tool used by many great thinkers. They enable us to explore impossible situations and predict their implications and outcomes. Mastering thought experiments can help you confront difficult questions and anticipate (and prevent) problems. *** The purpose of a thought experiment is to encourage speculation, logical thinking and to change paradigms. …
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Blog postThere are two types of people in the world: those who enjoyed mathematics class in school, and the other 98% of the population.
No other subject is associated with such widespread fear, confusion, and even outright hatred. No other subject is so often declared by children and adults alike to be something they “can’t do” because they lack an innate aptitude for it.
Math is portrayed as something you get or you don’t. Most of us sit in class feeling like we don’t.
But wh -
Blog postIt happens all the time. You read an amazing book, one so packed with wisdom that you think it’s going to change your life forever. Then…it doesn’t. Why? Because when you’re finally in a situation where you could use its insights, you’ve completely forgotten them. Time is our most valuable resource, so we shouldn’t waste it. The investment we make in reading should have a positive, lasting impact on our lives.
Consuming information is not the same as acquiring knowledge. No idea could -
Blog postDescribing something with accuracy forces you to learn more about it. In this way, description can be a tool for learning.
Accurate description requires the following:
ObservationCuriosity about what you are witnessingSuspending assumptions about cause and effect It can be difficult to stick with describing something completely and accurately. It’s hard to overcome the tendency to draw conclusions based on partial information or to leave assumptions unexplored.
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