Farnam Street, (Farnum Street n.d.)

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Mental models are how we understand the world. Not only do they shape what we think and how we understand but they shape the connections and opportunities that we see. Mental models are how we simplify complexity, why we consider some things more relevant than others, and how we reason.

A mental model is simply a representation of how something works. We cannot keep all of the details of the world in our brains, so we use models to simplify the complex into understandable and organizable chunks.

Bibliography

Farnum Street. n.d. “Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained).” Farnam Street. Accessed September 18, 2020. https://fs.blog/mental-models/.