{"id":1337,"date":"2014-07-29T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2014-07-29T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T11:03:32","slug":"mental-models-and-how-we-make-sense-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/mental-models-and-how-we-make-sense-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Models and How We Make Sense of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way our minds shape what we notice and how that allows us to do complicated things with ease, and the problems this ability can cause us as we try to work and live together.  Steven Wirth is Exec. Dir. of the Centre for Contemplative Dialogue.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMental models can be a barrier to our ability to find the best solutions.  The process of Gathering Intelligence during decision making requires us to break our mental models.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div  id=\"_ytid_36278\"  width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"450\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzkkmFAsQSA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;theme=light&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/GzkkmFAsQSA\/hqdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way our minds shape what we notice and how that allows us to do complicated things with ease, and the problems this ability can cause us as we try to work and live together. Steven Wirth is Exec. Dir. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/mental-models-and-how-we-make-sense-of-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-language","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}