Mental Model
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Mental Model
Have clear goals.
Clarify the outcome or question that should guide an effort, along with relevant constraints and priorities
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Health Literacy Model
Health literacy—the ability to obtain, process, understand, and use health information to make appropriate health decisions—is a stronger predictor of health outcomes than income, education, employment status, or racial/…
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Health Screening Schedule Protocol
A protocol for maintaining a proactive health screening schedule organized by age decade, moving from reactive healthcare (treating symptoms) to preventive healthcare (detecting problems early)
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Healthspan vs. Lifespan
The healthspan concept, popularized by Peter Attia and others, distinguishes between total years lived (lifespan) and years lived in good health (healthspan)
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Hedging
Hedging uses an offsetting position or arrangement to reduce exposure to a specified risk
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Hedonic Adaptation to Wealth (Spending Categories)
Hedonic adaptation applies to wealth with specific patterns
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Hedonic Adaptation to Wealth (The Lifestyle Treadmill)
Hedonic adaptation describes how some emotional responses to changed circumstances diminish as those circumstances become familiar
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Hedonic Treadmill
The psychological phenomenon where people rapidly adapt to both positive and negative life changes, returning to a relatively stable baseline level of happiness
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Hedonic Treadmill Blindness
Not just the hedonic treadmill itself (which most educated people know about intellectually) but the specific blindness to it: the persistent belief that the next achievement, purchase, or life change will produce lastin…
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
The position–momentum uncertainty relation bounds the product of quantum-state outcome spreads
Cognitive Move
Helps the operation
Ask whether the new frame makes the specific job you are doing cheaper, faster, or more reliable. Not whether it changes your answer, but whether reaching an answer takes less work, less guessing, or fewer steps than before.
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Herb, Alice, and Hal, the Baby
Dennett imagines genetic information passing through digital representation before contributing to a fictional child, asking how informational continuity relates to physical carriers and reproduction.
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Herd Immunity
Herd immunity is indirect protection resulting when population immunity reduces transmission
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Heredity
Genetic heredity concerns transmission of DNA variants from parents to offspring
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Hersey-Blanchard Model (Situational Leadership)
A leadership framework associated with Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard that varies task direction and relational support according to a person’s needs for a particular task
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Heterophenomenology
Heterophenomenology is Dennett's proposed approach to studying consciousness through careful interpretation of first-person reports alongside other evidence, while suspending automatic acceptance of the reporter's theore…
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Heuristic
A mental shortcut or rule of thumb that simplifies complex decisions into manageable judgments—producing quick, usually-good-enough answers without exhaustive analysis
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Heuristics-Model Thinking
Heuristics are explicit shortcuts that reduce search, information use, or computation
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Hick's Law
William Hick's experimental finding that the time required to make a decision INCREASES LOGARITHMICALLY with the number of choices available
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Hickam's Dictum (Multiple Simultaneous Diagnoses)
Hickam's Dictum — 'A patient can have as many diagnoses as they damn well please' — is the clinical counterbalance to diagnostic parsimony
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Hidden Action and Hidden Information
Hidden action and hidden information describe different information asymmetries in strategic relationships
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Hidden Curriculum Awareness
The hidden curriculum encompasses the unwritten, unofficial lessons students learn alongside formal content