Sitemap - 2025 - First Principles Guides - Mental Models for Thriving

6.1 Your Collection of Thinking Superpowers - The Ultimate Mental Toolbox for Smarter Decisions

5.3 Why the 10th Slice of Pizza Isn’t as Good as the First - The Law of Diminishing Returns

5.2 Why Some Things Get More Valuable When More People Use Them - Network Effects

5.1 How Tiny Habits Turn You into a Superhuman Over Time - Compounding

4.3 How Small Actions Can Have Massive Results - Leverage

4.2 Every Choice Costs You Something - Are You Paying the Right Price? - Opportunity Cost

4.1 Why You Keep Doing Stuff That’s Clearly Not Working - Sunk Cost Fallacy

3.4 Why You Only Hear About Winners (and Why That’s a Problem) - Survivorship Bias

3.3 Why We Fear the Wrong Things (Sharks vs. Bathtubs) - The Availability Heuristic

3.2 Why Your Brain Loves to Lie to You - Confirmation Bias

3.1 Why Life is Never Exactly What the Brochure Says - The Map is Not the Territory

2.4 The Smartest Way to Predict the Future - Probabilistic Thinking

2.3 Know What You Know (and What You Don’t) - Circle of Competence

2.2 Why Most People Aren’t Actually Out to Get You - Hanlon’s Razor

1.4 How Thinking Backward Helps You Win at Life - Solving Problems by Thinking in Reverse

1.3 See the Future Before It Happens with Second-Order Thinking

1.2 The ‘What If’ Trick That Turns You into a Super Thinker - Playing "What If" with Your Imagination

2.1 How to Spot the Simplest (and Usually Right) Answer - Occam’s Razor

1.1 The Cheat Code to Solving Any Problem - Breaking Problems Down to Basics

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