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Books like The Great Mental Models
The best books like The Great Mental Models are Poor Charlie's Almanack, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts. The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish is about mental models, decision-making, critical thinking. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Poor Charlie's Almanack
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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.
Shares mental models and decision-making with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - The Art of Thinking Clearly
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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.
Shares decision-making and reasoning with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - Getting Things Done
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David Allen · Self-help
Getting Things Done is David Allen's argument that the main source of stress in modern knowledge work isn't the volume of tasks — it's having commitments that live only in your head.
Shares decision-making and systems thinking with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - A Rulebook for Arguments
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Anthony Weston · Philosophy
A Rulebook for Arguments is Anthony Weston's slim, widely assigned handbook on how to build and judge arguments.
Shares critical thinking and reasoning with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Robert Coram · Biography
Boyd is Robert Coram's biography of Colonel John Boyd, the Air Force fighter pilot who became one of the most influential military strategists of the twentieth century without ever having commanded a major unit, written a best-selling book, or achieved the rank that would have made him famous while alive.
Shares decision-making and systems thinking with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg · Science
Jordan Ellenberg is a research mathematician who writes as if mathematics is something you would want to think about over dinner.
Shares critical thinking and reasoning with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
Peter Bevelin · Philosophy
Seeking Wisdom is Peter Bevelin's distillation of ideas from Charles Darwin, Charlie Munger, and a wide range of scientific and philosophical disciplines — assembled into a practical guide for better thinking and decision-making.
Shares mental models and decision-making with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - The Art of the Good Life
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Rolf Dobelli · Philosophy
The Art of the Good Life is Rolf Dobelli's sequel to The Art of Thinking Clearly, applying the same format — short, self-contained chapters on discrete mental tools — to the question of how to construct a life that goes well.
Shares mental models and decision-making with The Great Mental Models.
Read the summary → - The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
David Robson · Psychology
The Intelligence Trap is science journalist David Robson's investigation into a paradox: high intelligence and education do not protect against bad reasoning, and can actively make it worse.
Shares decision-making and critical thinking with The Great Mental Models.
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Books like The Great Mental Models: quick answers
What are the best books like The Great Mental Models?
The best books like The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish are Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Great Mental Models, such as mental models, decision-making, critical thinking.
What should I read after The Great Mental Models?
A natural next read after The Great Mental Models is Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger. Shares mental models and decision-making with The Great Mental Models. Other strong choices are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.
What books are similar to The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish?
The Great Mental Models centers on mental models, decision-making, critical thinking. Books with a similar feel include Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, Getting Things Done by David Allen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
