
I know I sound old. Like everyone else, I hate to be old and wise.

Social media meme culture made it "cool" to rant about stuff. Everyone who rants is more instantly more relatable. And I took part in this. I mean I have a tag called ["Rants"](https://www.vedantlohbare.com/tags/rants) bookmarked on my site.

Note: Believe me I'm trying to sound less corny and failing to do with each sentence.

I woke up today dreading to go to work. Working in a startup can be a numbing experience, you experience failure at almost on a daily level. And I've worked in a startup environment for all of my career. This has started to wear me down.
To put things into perspective just six months ago, I would have considered myself the luckiest if I had gotten the job I have today.

There are 100 things to rant about in my life. There may be 1000 to be grateful about. Humans are wired to hate losing more than they love winning. I think this translates in some-form over here too, that's why we like to fixate on the wrong stuff.

Reminder: Believe me I'm trying to sound less corny and failing to do with each sentence.

And Ranting is cool! But I'd rather by happy than be cool.
Being Happy and Grateful is what I'm going to focus on from now on.


I know I sound old. Like everyone else, I hate to be old and wise.

Learning to be gratefull


The concept of mental models was probably first brought to my attention by Shane Parrish of farnam street.

### Different mental models I subscribe to

- Regret minimization framework
  - Take actions to minimize the regret for future self
- Fear setting by Tim Ferriss
  - This is one of my favorite exercises to do, but not sure if it is a mental model or an actual excercise.
  - Follow the steps mentioned [here](https://tim.blog/2017/05/15/fear-setting/)
- First principles for long term decision making
  - Strip down the problem to the lowest form and strip your mind of all the pre-existing solutions. Handy for product managers but I don't think I'm applying this a lot
- Pareto Principle for medium term decision making
  - The 80/20 rule. Everyone should know this already
- Parkinson's law
  - Work expands to fill the time alloted to it. Often found this to be true. So I try to time box my activities.
- ICE model for short term decision making
  - Impact, complexity and effort
- Two minute rule
  - If an incoming action can be done in two minutes or less, do it right away rather than putting it on a to-do list, because it will take up even more time to organise and review is later
- Always write when making important decisions
  - Mind easily fills the gap in our thoughts when they are well in our minds. If you write it down, you'll be able to identify the gaps in your thoughts much easily
- Reversible or irreversible decisions
  - Bezos introduced this to me as well. If a decision is reversible, we can make it fast and without perfect information. If a decision is irreversible, we had better slow down the decision-making process and ensure that we consider ample information and understand the problem as thoroughly as we can.
- Inversion
  - More of a mental excercise. Imagine you want to achieve the opposite of your goal and then ensure you do not follow those steps. Simple enough, I'll try to practice this more as well.

Additional Reference

1. https://fs.blog/mental-models/
1. https://www.julian.com/blog/mental-model-examples
1. [Super Thinking](https://www.amazon.in/Super-Thinking-Book-Mental-Models/dp/0525533583)


The various mental models I apply or want to apply in my life