Mental Models

There’s no failure in quitting something and going into a different direction. Consistency is just about not giving up even if different roads have to be taken. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

There’re things that need to be done and there’re things that don’t need to be done. So instead of giving energy and attention to unnecessary things we can just be “lazy”. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

We all have a maximum capacity and therefore ability to do things on a day to day basis. Limits can be stretched but only to a certain extent. Combining that with work that you don’t care about and burn outs and frustrations awaken. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing pe...

Some situations might feel hopeless but you can never know what’s around the corner. When you least expect it, something you never knew was coming is there. This has always happened and will also always happen over and over again. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing pers...

Most things really aren’t that complicated but with all the options, an overload of information and endless unsolicited advice all these uncomplicated things get way too complicated and we’re unable to see behind that curtain. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspect...

Craving drama and things going wrong to be able to feel something and have something to fight for. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

Nobody knows what they actually want but the only way to find out is by trying and definitely not listening to what other people want or expect you to do. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

Opinions don’t have a lot of meaning when it comes to how to live your life. A life is lived to have its own experiences, not to be a copy of someone else’s. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

Even avoiding anything risky comes with a risk. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

Comparison made by the hand of possessions brings nothing more than a skewed image. The differentiator is in personality, built by actions, achievements and things that cannot be taken away from oneself. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted...

Every plan is destined to fail once put into action because it’s impossible to plan for every variable and unexpected event. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

If you simply just don’t want something you cannot force yourself to “just want it”, that doesn’t make sense. The people that are obsessed with something have a natural urge or very strong and deep reasoning behind it that cannot be just thought to yourself. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common...

We always quickly tend to look at what is going wrong or what we did wrong to try and fix our flaws and avoid making the same “mistakes” or trying to improve but I think that fixing our flaws will never takes us as far as doubling down on our natural given strengths. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questionin...

In my experience, the only things that’s keeping me from doing or achieving the things I want to pursue is some kind of fear and being scared for some worst case scenario. But really thinking deep about that worst case scenario: it’s never really that bad. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common as...

When people try to oppose their will on you despite you not even wanting to do that and have a completely different plan. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.com. Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

Sometimes we just find ourselves in a position where we’re much further back than where we once were. That’s hard to accept because we know we can do better, and we’ve done better, but things just go the way they go and sometimes we just need to start over at the beginning. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tob...

If there’s anything you really want to do but somehow it’s just not working out. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.com. About: Rethinking the basics by questioning common assumptions and sharing perspectives that have shifted my own thinking.

Being too afraid of spending the money you made. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.com. About: Public commentary on the state of the world from my POV by Tobias Philipp.

In an entropic world, structures and calendar-keeping reduce any chance of discovering something new. Great opportunities arise in entropy, not in structures and disciplines. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.com. About: Public commentary on the state of the world from my POV by Tobias Philipp.

The stretch of doing everything, seeing nothing and wondering what is the problem. Everything always takes much more time and effort than we think which makes us quit way before we even did the bare minimum amount of work. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.com. About: Sharing thoughts I’d normally...

We might think that the decisions we make in our own affairs don’t have that much effect on other people’s lives but that’s not true at all. The results of our actions influence the lives of a lot of people around us and could actually have a big impact. That’s why I think we can’t think too easily about what we do and how we act and react. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Sen...

Experiencing (or having experienced) any form of burnout is very hard to deal with. Maybe not only the fact you have to go through it but maybe just as much having to deal with the opinions from others around this matter. In my opinion, being burnt out is not directly your fault but a gathering of different aspects that drift you off from your own human nature. Got questions or want to have a conv...

When your life doesn’t fit you, even the smallest setbacks become immense obstacles. But when you love your life and love what you do, you bounce back way easier. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.com. About: Sharing thoughts I’d normally keep to myself. To stay accountable, figure out what matter...

There’s nothing worse than always being told what to do and what to think by others. Not everybody is trying to do the same things and even trying to help people prevent mistakes is basically taking away an important lesson from them and not helping them at all. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.c...

If there’s no motivation to do something and you have to fight yourself to do it, there’s something misaligned because if you do something that you really want to do, there’s never a lack of motivation. Got questions or want to have a conversation with me? Send me an email: mentalmodels@icloud.com. Everything I do: https://tobiasphilipp.com. 00:00 Forget what you’ve been told 01:25 Why motivation...