Mental Models

"The best mental models I have found came through evolution, game theory, and Charlie Munger. Charlie Munger is Warren Buffett’s partner. Very good investor. He has tons and tons of great mental models. Author and trader Nassim Taleb has great mental models. Benjamin Franklin had great mental models. I basically load my head full of mental models."

— Naval Ravikant

I'm sharing this visual experiment where I express my favorite mental models as interactive UI components.

What are mental models?

Mental models are conceptual frameworks that we use to understand the world and its dynamics.

You can imagine mental models as mental maps that help you understand how things work simply and quickly. It's like having a collection of maps in your head that explain how everything is connected and what happens when you do something.

These maps make it easier to remember and use these concepts to make decisions in your daily life.

My Mental Models

They are completely free, and I will try to add as many as I can.

Feel free to share them with your friends or save them for later use.

I hope you find them as useful as I do.

Click on any of them to explore them.

Embed Mental Models

You can embed any mental model as a widget in your own website or blog by using the /widget version of the page.

Widget URLs include noindex headers automatically, so only the main mental model pages appear in search results.

How to Embed

Use an iframe with the widget URL. For example, to embed the "Fast, Good, Cheap" mental model:

<iframe
  src="https://victorsejas.com/mental_models/fast_good_cheap/widget"
  width="100%"
  height="400"
  frameborder="0"
  title="Fast, Good, Cheap Mental Model"
></iframe>

Custom Dimensions

You can customize the widget dimensions by adding w and h parameters:

<iframe
  src="https://victorsejas.com/mental_models/fast_good_cheap/widget?w=600px&h=500px"
  width="100%"
  height="500"
  frameborder="0"
  title="Fast, Good, Cheap Mental Model"
></iframe>

All mental models on this page support widget mode. Simply replace fast_good_cheap with the path of the mental model you want to embed.