We become prisoners of the mental models that underpin our past success.

过去的成功，会困住我们的想象力。

The Feynman technique is one of the most universal mental models out there.

费曼技巧是最普遍的心智模型之一。

You're weaving this narrative, you're building this mental model in your head.

你是在编织这个故事，你在脑海中建立这个心理模型。

And the final topic in the methods part of this book are mental models and thinking.

这本书的方法论部分，最后一个主题是心智模型与思维。

So this is where you make sure that you've addressed everything on the agenda and within this mental model.

所以，以上就是讲你要确保自己能在这种思维模式中解决议程上的所有问题。

Even the basic process of talking through things, well, it can help you build a mental model of the world around you.

即使是将事情讲清的简单过程，也能帮助你建立起对周围世界的心理模型。

These very early relationships that we have give rise to these mental models that carry forward throughout the rest of our lives.

这些早期的人际关系形成了我们的心智模式，并在我们的余生中延续。

To build ourselves a new mental model of what being alone should truly mean, we might rehearse a few of the following arguments.

为了给自己建立一个独处真正意味着什么的新心理模型，我们可以默记以下几个论点。

We also wouldn't be able to replace things that are no longer true with better information and update our mental models of the world.

我们也无法用更优质的信息剔掉已经失真的信息，更新我们对世界的认识。

And, really, that's the value of the equation as a whole; it's a mental model that makes it easy to pinpoint why you're procrastinating.

这就是整个方程的值；这是一种很容易找出你拖延原因的心智模式。

Computers are just much better at rejecting outliers and building a mental model of data.

- 计算机更擅长拒绝异常值和建立数据心理模型。

Is there a mental model thing that people don't get here

有一个没有太阳能电池的屋顶是不常见的。

And it's never seen it before, so it doesn't have a mental model of the chessboard.

而且它以前从未见过它，所以它没有棋盘的心智模型。

As you gain experience with interfaces, you get faster, building mental models of how to do things efficiently.

随着您获得界面方面的经验，您会变得更快，建立如何有效地做事的心智模型。

The outlines helped students if they were otherwise good at building mental models of what they were reading.

如果学生善于建立所读内容的心理模型，那么这些大纲会对他们有所帮助。

Now, this one down here is the robot's mental model of the world, so this is inside its mind.

现在，下面这个是机器人对世界的心智模型，所以这是在它的脑海里。

You're relying on, like rote learning it rather than understanding the content and having kind of a mental model of your subject, of your content in your head.

你依赖于死记硬背，而不是理解内容，以及获取对于你的主题和你脑海中内容的心智模型。

And the reason why I think this is a great mental model is because what most people do is they view problems from their own perspective, that one perspective.

我之所以认为这种心智模型很好，是因为大多数人都是从自己的角度看问题，只有那一个角度。

It's a great, it's an amazing mental model that you should always go through every time you're about to make a big purchase or make a big decision in your life.

这是非常好、非常了不起的心智模型，每当你要在生活中进行一笔大采购或者作出重大决定时，你都应该运用这种思维。

But a first mental model in your head is at the center of this atom, this carbon-12 atom, you have this nucleus, right over there.

但是你头脑中的第一个心智模型是在这个原子的中心，这个碳 12 原子，你有这个原子核，就在那里。