Mental Models
How does this model describe beliefs?
The stories Dave's mind uses as shortcuts for identity, possibility, and safety.
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Fixed Mindset: Mistaking a current skill for a permanent ceiling.
Scarcity Story: Treating opportunity, attention, or time as already gone.
Identity Label: Compressing a living person into one stale label.
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How does this model describe thoughts?
Interpretations, questions, and planning loops that become visible before they harden into belief.
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Inner Narration: The story the mind tells while evidence is still arriving.
Possibility Scan: Opening options without treating every option as a promise.
Next Move Loop: A planning thought asking where the system should move next.
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How does this model describe biases?
Pattern shortcuts that help the brain move fast, but can distort the map.
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Confirmation Bias: Collecting evidence for what the mind already expects.
Availability Bias: Letting the easiest memory feel like the whole truth.
Sunk Cost: Staying because of what was spent, not what is alive now.
Spotlight Effect: Feeling watched by a room that is mostly thinking about itself.
Representativeness: Judging by resemblance instead of the deeper pattern.
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How does this model describe emotions?
Signals that become Nestheads when they seize the controls without context.
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Fear Loop: A warning signal that keeps refreshing itself.
Envy: A painful compass pointing toward an unnamed desire.
Shame Spiral: Turning one mistake into a verdict on the self.
Anger Flash: Boundary energy arriving before translation.
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How does this model describe habits?
Repeated loops that can become protective, costly, or beautifully trained.
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How is this answer supported?
Avoidance: Relief now, bigger shadow later.
Procrastination: A negotiation between pressure, fear, and energy.
Perfectionism: Using impossible standards to avoid exposure.
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How does this model describe triggers?
Fast doorways where old context rushes into the present moment.
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Rejection Ping: A tiny cue that wakes the whole alarm system.
Comparison Scroll: Measuring your inside against someone else's outside.
Uncertainty Alarm: Demanding certainty from a world that moves.
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How does this model describe neurotransmitters?
Body chemistry as part of the map, not a moral failure.
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Dopamine Drift: Chasing the next spark while the deeper need waits.
Cortisol Spike: Stress chemistry narrowing the field of view.
Oxytocin Signal: Connection as nervous-system information.
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How does this model describe gratitude?
Attention practices that help the mind remember enoughness.
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Savoring: Letting a good moment last long enough to register.
Thankfulness: Naming support so the mind can see it.
Reframing: Finding the useful angle without denying the hard one.
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