Clear Thinking

The greatest aid to judgment is starting from a good position.

When you are well positioned, there are many paths to victory. If you are poorly positioned, there may be only one.

What happens in ordinary moments determines your future.

Each moment puts you in a better or worse position to handle the future.

It’s that positioning that eventually makes life easier or harder.

Ordinary moments determine your position and your position determines your options.

It doesn’t matter what position you find yourself in right now. What matters is whether you improve your position today.

… (text from the book)

The best decision-makers are the ones who think clearly.

To think clearly, you need a framework, a good mental model.

I never came across a simple yet effective decision-making model till I read this book.

• What are the human defaults that make us try to win the moment at the expense of the decade?
• How much information is enough before we make a decision?
• Which decisions we should make ASAP and which ones ALAP?
• Which one is more important: knowing how to get what we want? or knowing what’s worth wanting?

Shane Parrish is one of my favorite authors who previously published “The Great Mental Models” book series which I found immensely valuable and insightful to read and reread.

Happy reading! 📙