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Knowing the big ideas of the disciplines well enough for an exam does not help; they have to sit in a mental latticework and be used automatically for life

Drawn from what Charlie Munger said

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mental models Thinking tools borrowed across disciplines: inversion, second-order effects, circles of competence, probabilities, incentives.

education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

Many models, not one

Which mental models help you think better?under our view: One model is never enough: carry many, from many fields, or every problem looks like a nail

What Charlie Munger actually said

  1. Charlie Munger Warren Buffett's business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
    And it doesn’t help you just to know them enough just so you can prattle them back on an exam and get an A. You have to learn these things in such a way that they’re in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life.

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