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Many hard problems are best solved by addressing them backward, studying how to create non-X in order to create X

Drawn from what Charlie Munger said

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

Mental modelInversion

On the topicWhich mental models help you think better?under our view: Invert, always invert: work the problem backward and avoid what fails

What Charlie Munger actually said

  1. Charlie Munger Warren Buffett's business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
    What Carson did was to approach the study of how to create X by turning the question backward, that is, by studying how to create non-X. The great algebraist, Jacobi, had exactly the same approach as Carson and was known for his constant repetition of one phrase: “Invert, always invert.” It is in the nature of things, as Jacobi knew, that many hard problems are best solved only when they are addressed backward.

    Where this was said

    ↗How to Guarantee a Life of Misery (Harvard School commencement address, 1986)jamesclear.com

    13 Jun 1986

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