An Intro to General Thinking Concepts: “The Great Mental Models Volume 1” by Farnam Street (Book Summary)

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**An Intro to General Thinking Concepts: The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Farnam Street (Book Summary)**

“Farnam Street is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life. We address such topics as mental models, decision-making, learning, reading, and the art of living.”

About Farnam Street (founded by Shane Parrish):

“In a world full of noise, Farnam Street is a place where you can step back and think about time-tested ideas while asking yourself questions that lead to meaningful understanding. We cover ideas from science and the humanities that will not only expand your intellectual horizons but also help you connect ideas, think in multidisciplinary ways, and explore meaning.”
“I started writing about my learnings, the result being the Farnam Street website. The last eight years of my life have been devoted to identifying and learning the mental models that have the greatest positive impact, and trying to understand how we think, how we update, how we learn, and how we can make better decisions.”

Shane Parrish acknowledges that he’s standing on the shoulders of giants:

“This book wouldn’t be possible without the insights of others. The goal of Farnam Street is to master the best of what other people have figured out. True to this mission, everything in here began with someone else.”
“The ideas in these volumes are not my own, nor do I deserve any credit for them … I’ve only curated, edited, and shaped the work of others before me.”
“If you want to suck up someone’s brain, you should simply read a book. All the great wisdom of humanity is written down somewhere.”
“These pages are filled with ideas from many great minds. It’s only fair to point out that any idea you found in this book comes from someone else.”

About The Great Mental Models:

“When I first started learning about multidisciplinary thinking there was no source of collected wisdom—no place where I could find the big ideas from multiple disciplines in one place. This book, and indeed, this series, is meant to bring some of the big invariant ideas into the world to help us better understand the world we live in and how it interconnects.“
“The Great Mental Models Project is a labor of love to help equalize opportunity in the world by making a high-quality, multidisciplinary, interconnected education free and available to everyone.”