[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Communication]] - People: [[Vicky Zhao]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyHC9HLTzc --- ## Summary - Your knowledge is a library of mental models - Your ability to articulate ideas is defined by how efficient you are at recalling your models and how refined your understanding is - [[Distill the things we know to the very essence of it]]. - [[Understand concepts, not details.]] - [[Build your structures of understanding by deconstructing existing ones]] ## Notes - Under high pressure... [[Steer, don't follow.]] - When conversing, if the other person is applying "pressure", you want to steer the conversation to take back control - to talk about what you want to talk about, instead of just following their logic. - Think in frameworks - structures to organize your thoughts. - Reason from first principles. - Break down concepts into their atomic parts. Identify the conceptual levers to play with. - [[To understand the conversation, is to understand the concept.]] - To understand the concept is to be truly competent. - Build a library of topics that are important to you. - Cultivate a collection of topical frameworks. Connect frameworks to deepen understanding and perhaps reveal key insights. - **Conceptual frameworks are mental models**. - Always know the first principles of the mental models that are meaningful to you. - "[[You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back.]]" - "[[Our mental models aren't reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters used to predict the weather.]]" - [[You can plan a pretty picnic, but you can't predict the weather.]] - "[[If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a useful form.]]" - Having an organized library of mental models naturally facilitates effective recall. - "[[Distill the things we know to the very essence of it]]." - [[Understand concepts, not details.]] - Business storytelling frameworks include ethos, pathos, logos - credibility, emotions and logic. - [[Knowing conceptual structures makes them useful. Connecting them makes them powerful.]] - [[Build your structures of understanding by deconstructing existing ones]]. ## Original ![[How do you think fast before you speak - Framework thinking-1.jpg]] ![[How do you think fast before you speak - Framework thinking-2.jpg]]