Mental Models Quotes

#1. To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.

Joseph Jaworski

#2. The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

Justin Rosenstein

#3. Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.

Peter Senge

#4. We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

Elizabeth Thornton

#5. What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Stephen LaBerge

#6. Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

Elizabeth Thornton

#7. beliefs create or constrain possibilities, desires lead to preferences among them, and intentions represent commitments to specific courses of action. Each of the primitive elements can evolve in time, which is why mental models have momentum.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#8. Learning is a process of modifying or completely changing our mental models based on new experiences or evidence.

Edward D. Hess

#9. You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying, 'Here are three things.' You have to derive it yourself to ingrain it in your head for the rest of your life.

Charlie Munger

#10. You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

Charlie Munger

#11. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

Peter M. Senge

#12. One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

Elizabeth Thornton

#13. A good systems thinker, particularly in an organizational setting, is someone who can see four levels operating simultaneously: events, patterns of behavior, systems, and mental models.

Art Kleiner

#14. We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

Elizabeth Thornton

#15. Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

Elizabeth Thornton

#16. Our mental models aren't reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know all too well, sometimes the forecast says rain and, boom, the sun comes out. The tool is not reality. The key is knowing the difference.

Ed Catmull

#17. When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

Elizabeth Thornton

#18. Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Peter Senge

#19. In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists.

Ted Cruz

#20. I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

Hampton Sides

#21. Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.

Maya Angelou

#22. For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

Song Kang-Ho

#23. We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow?

S.N. Lemoing

#25. [About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Niels Bohr

#26. Apple Pay also lacks a loyalty-rewards program, which has been key to the success of one of the world's most popular payment apps: Starbucks, which racks up 6 million transactions per week, or 15% of the coffee chain's total. And of course, even

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