The Mental Models Club (Page 2)

Featured mental models

The Four Stages of Creativity

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Welcome to the Procrustes Effect, where your creativity either stretches to breaking point or gets hacked down to size. It’…

Jul 31, 2024

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You're in a war with your own mind. The battlefield? Your latest creative project. The enemy? Every damn…

Jul 31, 2024

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The Pareto Principle is the cracked lens through which we view the world, where 80% of your artistic triumphs stem…

Jul 31, 2024

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Ulysses, the mastermind of the Trojan horse, battered from a decade of war, stares into the abyss of one final…

Jul 31, 2024

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You sit at your desk. Your masterpiece? A crime scene. Shards of half-formed ideas, remnants of forgotten muses. The clock…

Jul 30, 2024

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The Renaissance sculptors, chiseling away at marble, saw their masterpieces not in what they created, but in what they removed.…

Jul 30, 2024

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In a world obsessed with first impressions and instant gratification, second-order thinking is the secret weapon of the unrecognized genius.…

Jul 30, 2024

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You wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in a cold sweat. Your brain's a blender,…

Jul 30, 2024