Books

I got into The Great Mental Models, written by Shane Parrish. This is the edition about general thinking concepts. In order to understand the purpose of this book, we have to understand the current state of our education systems. In our day and age, children are conditioned to repeat well established facts without asking further questions. The process of creating compliant individuals is called indoctrination. And that has nothing to do with education. A more desirable education system would rather focus children on ways of how to think, instead of memorizing what somebody else believes to be true.

I got into The Great Mental Models, written by Shane Parrish. This is the edition about general thinking concepts. In order to understand the purpose of this book, we have to understand the current state of our education systems. In our day and age, children are conditioned to repeat well established facts without asking further questions. The process of creating compliant individuals is called indoctrination. And that has nothing to do with education. A more desirable education system would rather focus children on ways of how to think, instead of memorizing what somebody else believes to be true.

https://www.audible.de/pd/The-Great-Mental-Models-Hoerbuch/B07P6SY52Z

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And so mental models rule everything around us. The way in which this book was useful to me, was to find my own layers of abstractions within the stories of the book. The author talks about a great deal of various mental models and provides a lot of examples for how applicable those concepts are in the real world. But the real inside that any book can provide you with, lies in the magic that you find for yourself. I would recommend that book to anyone who just wants to get their mind wandering in an abstract fashion. So that others may find their own magic along the way.