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Shane Parrish · Farnam Street · 2016

Second-Order Thinking

Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.

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Extends decisions beyond their immediate payoff by asking what consequences follow after the first visible result.

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