Improve Your Latticework with 3 Mental Models
Improve Your Latticework with 3 Mental Models
Gall's Law, The Everyday Razor, Shoshin
“If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. You’ve got to have mental models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience, both vicarious and direct, on this latticework of models.” - Charlie Munger
Gall’s Law: Complex systems always emerge from simple systems.
Master the basics before moving on to mastery. When starting to build something, don’t hit the ground at 100 mph. Before you scale, ensure your systems are bulletproof.
The Everyday Razor: Changing something from weekly to daily improves your output by a factor of 7. When compounded at 1% it equates to 54 years of work. (Credit: George Mack)
Find a way to show up every day. Five minutes of exercise is better than zero minutes. Ten pages of reading is better than not reading at all. You will be astounded at the power of small daily wins. To quote Sahil Bloom, “Everything above zero compounds.”
Shoshin: Embracing the beginner’s mind with a strong sense of openness and curiosity without preconceived biases. (Japanese Zen Buddhist concept)
Alternative definition: “The practice of seeing life with wonder.”
Curiosity is a superpower. Those who are always learning are constantly improving themselves. Embrace new fields with excitement to become emersed in them. Understand that the road to mastery is never complete. The Dunning Kruger Effect allows amateurs to become overconfident. Experts become arrogant and close themselves off to new ideas. No matter what part of the journey you are on, approaching things with shoshin is essential for your growth. Never lose your sense of wonder.
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Thomas