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Books like The Great Mental Models

The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish is about mental models, decision-making, critical thinking. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Poor Charlie's Almanack
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    Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Charlie Munger · Business

    Poor Charlie's Almanack is a compilation of speeches, essays, and interviews from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

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  2. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

    Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

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  3. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
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    Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

    Annie Duke · Psychology

    Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's argument that most decisions in life share a fundamental feature with poker hands: you're choosing under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and luck will affect the outcome regardless of how well you reasoned.

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  4. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
    Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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    Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

    Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · Psychology

    Brian Christian is a writer and Tom Griffiths is a cognitive scientist, and together they argue that computer science has worked out rigorous solutions to many of the problems humans face every day — when to stop searching for a better option, how to manage your schedule, how to sort your memory — and that these solutions are both interesting and useful.

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  5. The Art of Thinking Clearly
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    The Art of Thinking Clearly

    Rolf Dobelli · Psychology

    Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss entrepreneur and novelist who wrote a series of short newspaper columns on cognitive biases, later collected and expanded into this book.

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  6. 12 Rules for Life
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    12 Rules for Life

    Jordan Peterson · Self-help

    12 Rules for Life is Jordan Peterson's attempt to distill what clinical psychology, comparative mythology, the Bible, and evolutionary biology say about how to live.

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