{"id":259,"date":"2017-01-16T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2017-01-16T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:18:43","slug":"mental-model-mondays-inversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/startup\/mental-model-mondays-inversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Model Mondays: Inversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Charlie Munger&#8217;s favorite stories is about the man who only wanted to know where he would die, so he would never go there. \u00a0Inversion is all about solving a problem backward. \u00a0Figure out each step from the end backwards to where you are now, and either make sure you do each step, or avoid doing each step. \u00a0Thinking backwards, and inversion, usually means subtracting things that could go wrong. \u00a0That&#8217;s the subtle power of inversion, which is it forces you to think using subtraction, instead of the normal forward thinking, which is built on addition. \u00a0Don&#8217;t think about what would make a good life, think about things that would result in a miserable life.<\/p>\n<p>Inversion can originally be credited to Carl Jacobi. \u00a0According to wikipedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of his maxims was: &#8216;Invert, always invert&#8217; expressing his belief that the solution of many hard problems can be clarified by re-expressing them in inverse form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YkrpoLYY-WY&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=2m20s\">video<\/a> to hear Charlie Munger talk about this himself. \u00a0He speaks far more eloquently than I write. \u00a0\u00a0Invert your thinking, and the problem becomes easier to solve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Charlie Munger&#8217;s favorite stories is about the man who only wanted to know where he would die, so he would never go there. \u00a0Inversion is all about solving a problem backward. \u00a0Figure out each step from the end backwards to where you are now, and either make sure you do each step, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}