Author: vienna (Page 4 of 9)

Just getting back here after the holidays. Grammarly doesn’t like it when I leave out words – but isn’t it apparent that I’m just getting back? Seeing as how I’m the only one writing on this blog?

Anyway, I’m checking out ShortForm – it’s a book summary service, and I’m doing a 5-day free trial – I’m testing it on Thinking Fast and Slow – an extremely well- reviewed book, referenced I swear, in over 50% of the books I’ve read in the last 2 years. But I hated reading it.

I see from my notes I downloaded it with Ninja Summary as well, but it looks like I never read it.

We’ll see how it works out, here’s the revised post …

Mental Models and Second-Order Thinking

This is the time of year I start asking myself – what do I wish I’d started at this time last year – no, to be more concise what do I wish I’d started and consistently kept doing since this time last year?

Or I’m asking myself that question because I just read a the chapter on 2nd Order Thinking in Shane Parrishe’s 1st edition of Mental Models. Deciding whether or not I was going to sit down and record the books I’ve been reading – as I said I was going to do last year. I suppose this isn’t a precise application – in fact it might be a combination of several of the mental models he’s written about – inversion – instead of asking or before I ask – what will happen if I record all of the books I read – here on this website – I’m asking what would have been the consequences of having done it already. Every year I wish I had kept track of everything I’d read and every year I don’t.

What if I’d started doing 1 actionable thing from every non-fiction book I’ve read going back for all time – my time that is. Had I done that how might my life be different (thought experiment)

Honestly, just adding the books is work, let alone writing about them! I’ve read hundreds of business books and even more fiction and done very little with it. Thus, my Zettlekasten and this attempt to think about and use what I’m reading. At this stage a rather poor attempt, but an attempt nevertheless.