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--- tags: - wiki - thinking - mental-models - rationality - meta-cognition title: Thinking Frameworks type: wiki-compilation visibility: public --- # Thinking Frameworks Jeremy Nixon's compiled knowledge on how to think better -- mental models, rationality, meta-cognition, and the systematic decomposition of thought itself. Synthesized from 50+ raw entries. --- ## The Core Project: Systematizing Thought Jeremy's central intellectual ambition is treating **thinking itself as a system to be engineered**. Not just "think better" but "build a complete map of what thinking is and optimize each component." Core frameworks: - [[how-to-think]] -- The master document on thinking methodology - [[meta-modeling]] -- How to build and use mental models of models - [[17-07-21-meta-modeling]] -- Earlier exploration of meta-modeling - [[algorithmic-thinking]] -- Treating thought processes as algorithms - [[cognitive-categorization]] -- How the mind naturally categorizes ## Mental Models and Modeling - [[models-worth-creating]] -- Which models have the highest return on investment to build? - [[high-level-models]] -- The most powerful abstract models - [[distinctions-in-conceptual-style]] -- Different approaches to conceptual thinking - [[munger]] -- Charlie Munger's latticework of mental models approach - [[18-12-22-modes-of-thought]] -- Cataloging the different modes the mind can operate in - [[19-01-27-modes-of-thinking-worth-internalizing]] -- Which thinking modes to make habitual ## Contrarian Thinking A distinctive thread: systematically seeking truths that most people get wrong. - [[17-02-01-ways-to-discover-contrarian-truths]] -- Methods for finding non-consensus truths - [[17-07-26-contrarian-ideas-i-have]] -- Jeremy's own contrarian positions - [[18-09-05-sources-of-contrarian-truth]] -- Where contrarian truths come from - [[18-08-21-independent-first-principles-thinking]] -- Thinking from scratch vs. from authority - [[19-04-08-ideas-which-dramatically-shift-your-decision-making-extends-worldview-b]] -- Ideas that actually change behavior - [[19-04-21-technical-worldview-breaking]] -- Encountering ideas that break your framework - [[17-12-27-map-territory-confusions]] -- Where our models diverge from reality ## Rationality - [[what-is-rationality]] -- Defining and decomposing rationality - [[naive-rationality]] -- The failure modes of surface-level rational thinking - [[19-01-30-different-definitions-of-rationality-in-use]] -- How different communities define rationality - [[teaching-learning-superforecasting]] -- Calibrating predictions (Tetlock's framework) - [[19-02-24-calibration-conceptual-decomposition]] -- Breaking down what calibration actually requires ## Meta-Cognition - [[18-08-29-meta-concepts]] -- Concepts about concepts - [[19-12-31-meta-x]] -- The meta-pattern: applying X to itself - [[20-01-01-trans-x]] -- Going beyond X - [[18-09-18-rare-concepts-i-think-with-daily]] -- Uncommon but powerful concepts - [[18-09-10-words-to-create-creating-concepts]] -- Inventing new concepts as a thinking tool - [[19-02-02-quality-examples-of-newly-created-concepts]] -- Examples of successful concept creation - [[18-11-28-most-general-concepts]] -- The broadest, most transferable concepts ## Decomposition as Method A signature Jeremy move: take any complex phenomenon and decompose it into components. - [[19-02-01-conceptual-decomposition]] -- The method itself - [[18-11-06-decomposing-intelligence]] -- What are the components of intelligence? - [[18-11-27-consciousness-decomposition]] -- What are the components of consciousness? - [[19-01-31-humor-decomposition]] -- What makes things funny? - [[19-01-29-games-decomposition]] -- What makes games compelling? - [[18-08-26-deconstruction]] -- General deconstruction techniques ## Worldview Building - [[17-01-27-synthesizing-information-from-worldview-building]] -- How to integrate information into a coherent worldview - [[17-08-18-continuing-worldview-building]] -- Ongoing worldview construction - [[18-08-22-types-of-truth-you-cant-handle]] -- Truths people resist - [[18-11-20-how-to-handle-the-truth]] -- Dealing with difficult truths - [[20-02-29-deep-truths]] -- The deepest truths Jeremy has encountered - [[18-01-08-glimpses-of-reality]] -- Moments of clarity about what is real - [[18-09-19-what-is-real]] -- Questioning the nature of reality ## Questions - [[good-questions]] -- Jeremy's collection of powerful questions - [[18-08-03-generators-of-great-questions]] -- How to generate questions worth asking - [[17-12-24-questions-whose-answers-would-tweak-my-goals]] -- Questions that would change direction - [[18-11-28-the-big-questions]] -- The most important questions - [[19-01-20-generating-generators]] -- Meta: generating the generators of good questions ## Structure of Information - [[metalearning-the-structure-of-information]] -- How information is structured and how to learn from that structure - [[17-08-14-new-types-of-structure-in-information]] -- Novel structural patterns - [[17-09-14-principles-of-structure]] -- Core principles governing structure - [[17-09-06-types-of-relational-structure]] -- How things relate to each other - [[17-09-21-types-of-temporal-structure]] -- How things relate over time - [[17-08-01-examples-of-structure]] -- Concrete examples - [[18-02-28-implementing-the-structure-of-information]] -- Putting structural theory into practice ## Introspection - [[introspection]] -- On the practice of examining one's own mind - [[introspection-on-hyperanalytic]] -- Reflecting on the hyperanalytic approach itself - [[changing-my-mind-about-my-mind]] -- How Jeremy's self-understanding evolved - [[thought-loops-emotion-loops]] -- Recognizing and breaking circular patterns - [[17-07-31-system-1-breakdown]] -- Understanding automatic thinking - [[17-11-23-how-to-control-system-1]] -- Techniques for influencing automatic thought - [[18-01-08-how-to-clarify-thoughts]] -- Methods for achieving clarity