3.84 AVERAGE


In Super Thinking, Gabriel and Lauren succeed in distilling mental models into a highly digestible form. While the subject is not new to me, I believe that one would be hard-pressed to find such a large number of models interlinked the way the authors do. The structured approach used in this book and the use of everyday examples makes the book highly useable on a day-to-day basis.

I highly recommend Super Thinking to everyone who would like to take their thinking to the next level.

A collection of comics, memes, and DuckDuckGo advertisements wrapped up in what feel like insights written for early teenagers and marketed toward adults. This book goes in a lot of odd directions.

This is a compilation of random ideas very briefly explained. It felt like the first paragraph of a bunch of wikipedia articles.

Great tool box for anyone.

jofeshenry's review

4.0

I liked it, overall. Some of it was stuff I already knew or obvious, but generally it's a good digest of tools for thinking.
informative slow-paced

Hard to imagine that people won’t already be aware of at least 50% of these mental models. Very superficial coverage of each, so even new concepts are glossed over. Some interesting things for me to glean at least but I had to try hard not to roll my eyes throughout. Example pain point: “Surface area is the area of the surface”. 
informative reflective medium-paced

Interesting if you’re not familiar with STEM models (statistics, physics, math), and also if you want to dive deeper into models in social sciences (economics, business, politics). The book shouldn’t be read back to back - pick and choose topics based on the chapter titles depending on what models seem novel to you.
informative medium-paced

An impressive collection of useful mental models and concepts. However, there is an extreme amount of liberal bias in the examples used. If you're mature enough to chew on the meat and spit out the bones, then this is a good read. However, the author's bias is a huge stumbling block to any reader that isn't a fan of a type of elitist progressivism found on NPR and the student union of college campuses. 

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A really interesting book about different mental models that can be used in everyday life. For me personally there were a little bit too many mental models listed, which makes it quite hard to follow and understand everything, however still recommend everyone who is interested in behavioral psychology.