Shane Parrish · Farnam Street · 2013
Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill
Inversion is a powerful mental model to improve your thinking because it helps you identify and remove obstacles to success. Most of us tend to think one way about a problem: forward. Inversion allows us to flip the problem around and think backward.
Why we picked it
Makes backward reasoning practical by asking which obstacles and failure conditions must be removed before pursuing success.
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