Steve Jobs had his famed “reality distortion field”. The truth behind the superpower is less magical but no less powerful. It was his own unique Mental model that helped him reframe the world and ambush others with his world-changing ideas. Steve Jobs just saw things differently. Mental Models are the invisible spectacles through which we see the world. Put more simply, they are sweeping “laws” we build up internally that help us understand the world. Mental models are spawned by experience, fed by observation, and improved by reason. But like any lens, mental models can become myopic or blurred. That’s...

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