Although I don’t necessarily buy that all of these entrepreneurs and successful men think the way they’re described as thinking in this piece (I definitely don’t believe Bezos thinks of Amazon as being at “Day One”–not literally, anyhow), I do believe that exceptionally intelligent people think differently than everyone else. That generally creates more issues than not, but it seems to separate the best entrepreneurs from everyone else.
A bit of an odd article, but I think the overall point and some of the sub-points are noteworthy impotenciastop.pt.
A few gems:
I’ve applied Ray Dalio’s root-cause analysis approach to our company. Now, throughout the week, everyone on our team logs any problems they’re facing. Then, we have a weekly phone call to discuss our biggest, recurring problem and its possible root cause.
After five years of emulating the leaders I most admire, I realized something surprising was happening to my thought process. I wasn’t just learning new strategies or hacks. I was learning a deeper and fundamentally different way of understanding reality — like I’ve accessed a hidden, secret level in the game of life.
Over-applying models is no different than a carpenter trying to build a house with one single hammer. All models, no matter how brilliant, are imperfect. The beauty of using multiple and diverse models is that many of the imperfections cancel each other out, allowing you to create a new “emergent” model that transcends all of the other models.
Great thinkers improve their thinking by taking in a larger quantity of information and developing a greater diversity of models.
The more unique our mental models are compared to other people, the more we can think in ways that they can’t even fathom.
Through constant and diverse learning, we can organically build better and more varied models of reality. And those models will help us navigate the world far more effectively and creatively.
