The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts & Physics, Chemistry And Biology (Vol. 1 & Vol. 2)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
What if the most powerful thinking tools in the world were not locked away in specialist journals, but hiding in plain sight across disciplines from physics to philosophy? The Great Mental Models series presents a masterfully curated collection of universal reasoning frameworks — mental models — drawn from the world's greatest thinkers, designed to sharpen decision-making, solve complex problems, and illuminate the hidden structure of reality. Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts, arms the reader with foundational cognitive tools such as first principles thinking, inversion, and the map vs. territory distinction. Volume 2, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, extends the toolkit into the natural sciences, extracting timeless principles — entropy, evolution, and critical mass — and translating them into immediately applicable life and business strategies.
Author: -
Format: Hardback
Published: 2019, Farnam Street
Genre: Self help & mindfulness
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
What if the most powerful thinking tools in the world were not locked away in specialist journals, but hiding in plain sight across disciplines from physics to philosophy? The Great Mental Models series presents a masterfully curated collection of universal reasoning frameworks — mental models — drawn from the world's greatest thinkers, designed to sharpen decision-making, solve complex problems, and illuminate the hidden structure of reality. Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts, arms the reader with foundational cognitive tools such as first principles thinking, inversion, and the map vs. territory distinction. Volume 2, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, extends the toolkit into the natural sciences, extracting timeless principles — entropy, evolution, and critical mass — and translating them into immediately applicable life and business strategies.