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Navigate Mental Models For Personal Growth

Session #10 Quick Summary

In this session we're going to focus on reinventing our thinking.

Key Takeaways

Defining meta cognition. [00:10]
The two questions that help people move beyond their experience. [02:31]
Eben’s experience growing up poor. [03:19]
Revisiting previous versions of yourself and your previous realities. [06:45]
Mental models are “maps” that you master in different fields. [10:05]
Examples of great mental models you can use for business. [10:59]
How to combine mental models from different fields for even more power. [13:40]
Three different perspectives to take when reinventing your thinking. [15:57]
One of the cornerstone skills of the future that everyone should learn. [17:56]
Innovation by combination. [19:36]
Why insight is the ‘Pareto of the mind.’ [21:33]

Quotes

Metacognition is very important because it helps you release some of the grip on who you used to be.

We want to expect thinking to change as we reinvent.

Focus on the 20% that gets you 80% of the results. If you're focusing on mental models, you're going to want to focus on those that get you the most results.

As you learn mental models and you connect them to each other and you start using them together, that's where you get the real power.

Notice your thoughts, be here, be present right now.

Creativity is taking the things that you are learning, the skills that you have, the relationships that you have, the environments that you have and putting them together in new and novel ways to see what the result is.

Putting things together in a new way, that's an innovation all by itself.

Exercise

Practice using the 80/20 mental model in a few different areas of your life, by using the

The Exponential Life Tool

Also, practice applying the Pareto principle in your physical, emotional, and conceptual life every day, by simply asking, “What's the 20% that gives me the 80%?” – this makes everything in your life a lot more efficient.

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Session Transcript

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Books / Authors / Other Resources Mentioned

Jean Piaget
Clare Graves
The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil
Iconoclast, Gregory Berns
The Nature of Explanation, Kenneth Craik
Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charlie Munger
Opportunity, Eben Pagan

Navigate Reinvention Model

Reinvention, Part 1: Welcome To Reinvention

We're going to learn about how to reinvent ourselves personally and professionally, in our business, in our personal life and literally all through our lives.

Reinvention, Part 2: Examples And Perspectives Of Reinvention

In this session, we’re going to talk about examples of reinvention and get a sense of what reinvention looks like.

Reinvention, Part 3: Initiation

In this session, we’re discussing initiation and crossing the threshold into your transformation and into your reinvention.

Reinvention, Part 4: Reinvent “You”

We’re discussing the idea of "me", getting in touch with your unique gifts, and then revisioning them and reinventing them for higher purposes.

Reinvention, Part 5: The Fundamental Types Of Self

There are two patterns or principles or forces of self - kind of like yin and yang, or what I would call agency and communion.

Reinvention, Part 6: Reinvent Yourself

Self-design, in both senses: we’re designing ourselves and we’re doing it ourselves. And to do self-design, you have to get some meta-cognition.

Reinvention, Part 7: Reinvent Your Productivity

In this session, we’re reinventing our productivity and we’re starting to move more into the outer game, into interacting with the world.

Reinvention, Part 8: Reinvent Your Physical/Material World

There are three different worlds and the laws in one world won’t necessarily apply in other worlds.

Reinvention, Part 9: Reinvent Your Emotions And Relationships

In this session, we’re discussing reinventing in the emotional and social domain.

Reinvention, Part 10: Reinvent Your Thinking

In this session we're focusing on reinventing our thinking.

Reinvention, Part 11: Reinvent Business

Why and how you should be reinventing yourself with the customers, your marketing, and your product.

Reinvention, Part 12: Challenges Of Reinvention

When you're going through a reinvention, you're literally "dying into" another version of yourself.

Reinvention, Part 13: Reinvent Your Learning

We’re discussing reinventing learning itself. What does it really mean to learn and to reinvent learning in our lives?

Reinvention Part 14: Reinvent Value

In this session, we're going to reinvent value itself.

Reinvention, Part 15: Reinvention At Scale

In this session, we're talking about reinvention with a capital R. The big reinvention.

Navigate Mental Models For Personal Growth

Value Model

Identifying what you value is one of the highest leverage things that you can do as a person. It's incredibly important to identify what you value, and also, to identify how you value things. In this manual, we will talk about value, how to identify your values, how to value things, and how to get more value in your life and in your business.

Super Adapter

This model will help you understand how to adapt better, how to turn change and adversity into success, and what that can mean for your life. This mental model can (and should) be applied across domains, from personal to professional, to increase your ability to not only survive, but to thrive through change and stressors.

Transformation

Often, when we talk about adopting and developing skills, we think of math, spelling, riding a bike, driving, or learning a foreign language. But the transformation in areas like dating, thriving in marriage, writing a book, starting a business, requires a different type of change, a different type than knowing nine times nine, or remembering a formula. Transformation is a radical shift at the identity level and we are dissecting it in this manual.

Janus Skills

As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” The Janus Skills model is a unique combination of extremely useful and extremely rare. It is counterintuitive and is literally the opposite of conventional wisdom.

Reinvention

The idea behind reinvention is that you can take all of your skills, knowledge, relationships, stories, and resources, like puzzle pieces, and put them together in a new way to create value on a higher level than you hadn't even considered before and to open a pathway forward and upward in your life. In short, you can learn this skill and master it.

Hero's Journey

We've been refusing the call to become our greatest selves, to take care of this planet, to really think through what we're going to do if there's a major problem. Now we've been pushed over the threshold by the pandemic, and we are now going on what is probably the first collective Hero's Journey that we've been on.

Adult Development

This month we're learning about development and developmental models. Development is interesting and important because once you understand this model, you have a sense of how to go to the next level in life. You start to understand transformation and reinvention, and how to really achieve things in a highly leveraged way.

Emergence And Vertical Development

Life organizes itself into emergent levels and developmental psychology theorists tell us that this set of emergent orders also governs psychological development. We go through orders of development that transcend and include the previous orders. This is important because in situations where everything looks like it's about to break down, often it’s an emergence that’s about to happen, a breakthrough to a higher order of complexity.

Cognitive Biases

Humans have evolved over tens of thousands of years in an environment that is very different than the one we live in now. During this process, we developed unconscious biases which helped us survive in those tough environments, but can hinder us in today’s modern society. By recognizing those biases we can make infinitely better decisions.

Aging (Research Brief)

Here, you can find the results of my research on aging. This 92-pages long document contains my organized notes and within them, you can find key terminology, best resources, highlights, top 1% thought leaders to follow, and how-to info to help you apply the ideas.