Best Books on Mental Models

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Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
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For the first time ever, the wit and wisdom of Charlie Munger is available in a single volume: all his talks, lectures and public commentary. And, it has been written and compiled with both Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett's encouragement and cooperation. So pull up your favorite reading chair and enjoy the unique humor, wit and insight that Charl...
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More Than You Know
Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded) (Columbia Business School Publishing)
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Michael Mauboussin, one of Wall Street's most creative and influential minds offers provocative new ways of thinking about the stock market, investing, and how we make decisions....
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The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has done any kind of project knows a hammer often isn't enough.The more tools you have at your disposal, the more likely you'll use the right tool for the job — and get it done right.The same is true when it comes to your thinking. The quality of your outc...
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“Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book…Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you.” —Bill Gates A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this “stimulating and important book” (Financial Times) is a fascinating dive into the purpose and po...
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be ens...
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Bill GatesHrithik RoshanAshton KutcherRichard BransonMark ZuckerbergPewDiePieJoe RoganKarlie KlossMelinda GatesHelen ZilleWhitney CummingsNaval RavikantJames CameronReid HoffmanVinod KhoslaBryan CallenDan SnowMarcellus Wiley Derek SiversSimon MayoLex FridmanTrevor NcubeDemis HassabisDaniel EkPeter AttiaNir EyalMitch JoelTed HopeGreg SiskindSebastian JungerAkshay MRyan SheaRay Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, ...
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The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. Now available in a revised paperback edition, this classic bestseller can change the way the game of tennis is played....
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As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossiblechallenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows ...
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Influence: Science and Practice is an examination of the psychology of compliance (i.e. uncovering which factors cause a person to say "yes" to another's request). Written in a narrative style combined with scholarly research, Cialdini combines evidence from experimental work with the techniques and strategies he gathered while working as a sales...
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Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to st...
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Derek SiversPeter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from ...
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Boyd by Robert Coram
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
The Great Mental Models, Volume 2 by Farnam Street
Filters Against Folly by Garrett Hardin
The Art of Clear Thinking by Patrick King
How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
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Mistakes Were Made by Carol Tavris
Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg
The Innovator's Prescription by Clayton Christensen
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
World Dynamics by Jay Wright Forrester by
Charlie Munger by Tren Griffin
Critical Mass by Philip Ball
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
The Network Imperative by Barry Libert
Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
Mental Models by Indi Young
The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis
To Engineer Is Human by Henry Petroski
Internal Time by Till Roenneberg
The Up Side of Down by Megan McArdle
Decision Book by M. Krogerus