Mental models – Test yourself: Are there people you dislike most?

ARE you aware you not only dislike, but abhor even the shadow of someone? Would you know exactly why? It’s due to our mental models.

Mental models are our “deeply ingrained assumptions, attitudes and beliefs that influence how we understand the world and how we take action. The discipline of mental models is learning to unearth our internal pictures of the world, to bring them to the surface and hold them rigorously to scrutiny to see how they shape our actions and decisions.” (Peter Senge Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton and Art Kleiner (2000) Schools That Learn Annex- Copyright © 2000 Peter Senge).