The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

I picked up this book after finishing The Courage to Be Disliked.

For a few months, I had been practicing its ideas. It helped me settle my thinking — not by doing more, but by seeing more clearly. So this time, I chose my next book more carefully.

So far, this book feels different.

Not dramatic — but it creates space. It feels like my mind can finally look at itself.

One idea that stayed with me is a story from Greek mythology.

Antaeus, a giant, drew his strength from the ground. As long as he was connected, he was powerful. Once lifted, he lost that strength.

When our thinking is disconnected from reality, we lose our power to make good decisions.

This made me reflect on my own thinking.

Sometimes I thought I was overthinking. Sometimes I felt slow in making decisions. But now I’m starting to see it differently.

Maybe I wasn’t overthinking.

Maybe I was thinking from multiple angles — without a structure.

This book feels like it is giving me that structure.

Not by telling me what to think, but by helping me see how I think.

I don’t fully understand it yet.

But I can feel something shifting.

This book feels like a map I don’t fully understand yet — but one I need to walk through.

And for now, that is enough.