Friday, December 29, 2023

Inversion Thinking

Mental Model : Inversion Thinking

Charlie Munger

"My job in the World War II was as an Meteorologist -

drawing weather maps and predict weather

What I was doing was ,to clear the pilots to take flights

I reversed the problem

If I were to kill a lot of pilots , what should I do?

-It was to get the plane in Ice

-It was to get plane in zones before they run out of fuels

before they can safely land!

(This inversion thinking) helped me to be a better meteorologist! "

My Note:

This is what airplane designers do as well!

What would fail the part - how many ways it can fail

and all you need to do then is to prevent the breaking!

As Pete Kaufman Says:

You should be able to look at the map from up above

and down below and be able to interpret both ways!

Inversion thinking model helps you with that!

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