How can you push your thoughts further to uncover biases or generate better ideas?

There are many tools that help structure your thinking process, in addition to challenging yourself as described in the previous course. They aim to speed up and improve the assessment of a given situation and improve your decision-making. They are called mental models.

What is this all about? Concretely, they consist of frameworks for reflection, formulas known in advance, often from scientific fields. Referring to them forces us to slow down the pace of our thoughts and to follow a method that avoids confusion.

This section provides some of the most useful mental models.