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No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher. Cover Art and Formatting by Indie DesignzĪll rights reserved. He’s smart enough to know that this is charlatan territory if answered too literally. The talk is a great, and short, introduction to “multiple mental models” thinking. Diamond, of course, does not literally answer the question of How to Get Rich. This evening I plan to redress the balance and talk about the natural history of becoming rich. … probably most lectures one hears at the museum are on fascinating but impractical subjects: namely, they don’t help you to get rich. Lesser known than Guns, Germs, and Steel is a follow-up talk Diamond gave entitled How to Get Rich: Jared Diamond, the book’s author, is a great master of synthesis across many fields - works like The Third Chimpanzee and Collapse show great critical thinking prowess, even if you don’t come to 100% agreement with him. One of the well-known examples of this brand of thinking is Guns, Germs, and Steel, a book that opened thousands of eyes to the power of leaping across the walls of history, sociology, biology, geography, and other fields to truly understand the world. Our standard response includes great books like Garrett Hardin’s Filters Against Folly and Will Durant’s The Lessons of History. We’re constantly asked for examples of the “multiple mental models” approach in practice. |