Moiz Burhani

Contemplating the dichotomies and paradoxes of life.

Ideas and thoughts of an undiscovered genius.

[Moiz Burhani @Nashrich11]

If you’re like me—indecisive and an overthinker—mental models are one of the best things you can add to your life. Even if you’re not, they’re still insanely useful.
This thread is my attempt to learn and explain mental models that can genuinely change how one thinks and decides.

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@incentivising I agree with respecting your own time, but deliberately becoming scarce so people value you can turn into another kind of performance.

Build a life that genuinely makes your time valuable. The scarcity will take care of itself.

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@napoleonmastery The older I get, the more I think protecting your mind is as important as developing it.

If everyone around you gets a vote on what you should pursue, eventually you can’t tell which ambitions were yours to begin with.

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@dailystoic I’d question the first one.

Waking up early can be useful, but 5am doesn’t make someone productive. The other four are about judgment and behaviour; the first is mostly about when you choose to work.

I’d replace it with: you don’t protect your attention.

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@SahilBloom Learning what deserves no response has probably saved me more energy than any productivity system.

Not every problem needs solving. Not every opinion needs answering. Some things deserve to pass through your day without taking anything from it.

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Men seldom begin by stealing enough to condemn themselves. They begin with an amount for which they can invent a reason.

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A rule without a reason is merely an order that has survived the death of its explanation.

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Mastery is failure remembered so precisely that it begins to look effortless.

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@incentivising I think contrarianism can become its own form of conformity.

The crowd being confident is a reason to check the reasoning, not automatically take the other side.

Independent thinking means being willing to agree with the crowd too.

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@48_quotes I struggle with this one.

There’s a natural urge to show people how difficult the work was. But mastery often looks most impressive when you let the result stand there without explaining how hard you worked for it.

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@UnmodernmanBot We are frighteningly good at becoming our own lawyers.

The decision gets made by self-interest. Then the mind goes looking for principles that make it respectable.

I’ve found incentives often explain behaviour better than explanations do.

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@rajshamani This is why choosing your circle is such a consequential decision.

You don’t only inherit their contacts or opportunities. Slowly, you inherit what they consider normal.

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@jimheskel I’ve made this mistake before — assuming growth means adding more.

More products, more opportunities, more moving parts.

Eventually you realise subtraction can be a growth strategy too.

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Wealth isn't merely what you own.
It is the number of meaningful choices you retain.

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Truth is a cheat code because most people defend identity before updating strategy.

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@NavalismHQ @naval The opening offer reveals more than the final agreement.

Someone trying to take everything they can on day one is usually telling you how they’ll behave once the relationship gets harder.

The best partnerships leave enough value on both sides to make the next deal easier.

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Nothing in life is truly effortless.

Even walking took countless attempts before you stopped thinking about it.

What looks effortless is usually effort repeated so many times that the effort became invisible.

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@48_quotes There’s probably a balance here.

Explain too little and people cannot learn from you. Explain everything and some of the magic disappears.

I’ve noticed mastery often looks mysterious simply because the thousands of small decisions behind it are invisible.

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@jimheskel I’ve always found the best sales conversations feel more like diagnosis than persuasion.

Understand the problem well enough and you often don’t need much of a pitch at all.

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@DeepPsycho_HQ A lot of anxiety is rehearsing pain that hasn’t happened yet.

I’ve found it helps to ask: is there actually a problem in front of me right now, or am I trying to solve a future that only exists in my head?

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@Mach_Tactics Principles are useful because they stop you reinventing your morals every time circumstances change. The problem starts when ideology becomes more important than reality.

Good judgment is probably principles with enough humility to update them when the facts change.