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Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish is the founder and CEO of Farnam Street, a website sharing timeless ideas for life and business. Prior to starting Farnam Street, Shane was a cybersecurity expert at Canada’s top intelligence agency.
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Shane Parrish: "As hard as you think your life is, it pales in comparison to Auschwitz.
Tony Robbins: "Man’s Search for Meaning provides compelling examples of humanity’s perseverance through trying situations.
Jordan Peterson: "A book that I found particularly influential in my intellectual development."
This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.
Naval Ravikant mentioned Man's Search for Meaning on Twitter.
Shane Parrish: "Highly recommend"
Naval Ravikant: "One of my favorite books of all time."
Shane Parrish: "Reading [this book], along with Seneca, has really helped foster my interest in philosophy.
Sam Altman: "Great read."
Austen Allred: "[One of the books] that has inspired me the most or changed the way I live."
Arianna Huffington: "I discovered the book in high school and, yes, it was love at first sight."
Shane Parrish: "A must read."
Shane Parrish: "The big lesson I took away from Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, is that you don’t need to come up with all the ideas yourself.
Instead, you can look around and copy the best of what other people are doing."
Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as “Jeff’s Reading List.”
Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.
Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"
Shane Parrish: "This is the second time I’ve read this book."
Shane Parrish: "Because I have an MBA a lot of people inevitably ask me if they should pursue one.
If it’s knowledge and not credentials you’re after, save your money and read [this book]"
Marc Andreessen: "Tremendous"
Naval Ravikant recommended Poor Charlie's Almanack on Twitter.
Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.
Tim Ferriss mentioned reading Poor Charlie's Almanack on Twitter.
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 outcomes depends on the mental models in your head. And most people are going through life with little more than a hammer.
Until now.
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand.
This volume details nine of the most versatile all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making, your productivity, and how clearly you see the world. You will discover what forces govern the universe and how to focus your efforts so you can harness them to your advantage, rather than fight with them or, worse yet, ignore them.
We tend to isolate the things we know in the domain we learned it. For example:
On the surface, these concepts may appear to be dissimilar and unrelated. But the surprising truth is the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology) offer a wealth of useful tools you can use to develop critically important skills like:
This second volume of the Great Mental Models series shows you how to make those connections. It explores the core ideas from the hard sciences and offers nearly two dozen models to add to your mental toolbox.
You'll not only get a better understanding of the forces that influence the world around you, but you'll learn how to direct those forces to create outsized advantages in the areas of your life that matter most to you.
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