Super Thinking

Reading through the full text and identifying issues before outputting the corrected version.

Found four problems: Ch. 1 — "Good inverse thinking starts simple." — adverb needed ("simply"), not adjective Ch. 4 — Two paragraphs in the same section open with "The chapter …" (repeated opener) Ch. 5 — "its negative twin the nocebo effect" — missing appositive comma after "twin" Ch. 8/9 — Both paragraphs open with "In [verb]ing …" construction (repeated opener)

---

Introduction: The Latticework of Mental Models

In 1994, the investor Charlie Munger stood in front of a business-school audience at the University of Southern California and offered a piece of advice that sounds almost too plain to be useful. "You can't really know anything," he said, "if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form." His fix was to build that latticework out of mental models, and to steal them from every field you can reach. "When I urge a multidisciplinary approach," he later told a Stanford audience, "I'm really asking you to ignore jurisdictional boundaries."

That instruction is the seed of *Super Thinking*. Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and Lauren McCann, a research statistician, define a mental model as a recurring concept that helps you explain, predict, or approach a situation. Once you have truly absorbed one, it hands you a reusable picture you can apply the next time something similar shows up. Munger guessed that "80 or 90 important models will carry about 90 percent of the freight" in making you a wise person, and the book sets out to assemble that toolkit, drawing on physics, biology, economics, statistics, and psychology.