Frog in Boiling Water and 300 More Popular Thinking Tools That Will Make You Smarter

Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

«With great power comes great responsibility,» said Stan Lee in the Spider-Man comics, and he was absolutely right. Mental models are the most powerful thinking «tools» at our disposal. Depending on how we use different models, they can be both constructive and destructive.

How can mental models help you? Here are just a few examples…
• Before concluding that your colleague, who ruins your projects, wants to harm you, consider «Hanlon's Razor» as an alternative explanation.
• Have you ever sat through a bad movie just because you paid a lot for the ticket? You might be falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy.
• If you've ever been overwhelmed by a long to-do list, you might need the Eisenhower Decision Matrix to help you prioritize.

This book will teach you:
- how to avoid mental traps;
- to see multiple options for solving a problem and choose the best one;
- to distinguish good ideas from bad ones;
- as well as to see the world more broadly and find answers in unusual places.

«You know nothing if you only remember isolated facts. If the facts are not strung together by theory, you cannot use them. You must have models in your head.» — Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right-hand man.

And 300 more models inside the book:
· MVP or minimum viable product.
· Occam's Razor.
· Filter Bubble.
· The Essence.
· Paradigm Shift.
· Devil's Advocate Position.
· Hydra Effect.
· Frog in Boiling Water.
· Pareto Principle.
· A/B Testing.
· Fighting Out of Your Weight Class.
· DRI.
· JTBD or Jobs to be Done.
· NORD Cycle.


Also released under the title «Superthinking: How to Navigate Mental Traps and Make Effective Decisions».