The Great Mental Models Volume 3 - Farnam Street  ## Metadata - Author: **Farnam Street** - Full Title: The Great Mental Models Volume 3 - Category: #books ## Highlights - Feedback loops are so important. One of the reasons we say at FS the five people closest to you matter most to your outcomes and happiness is because of the quality of feedback they offer you. The people you spend the most time with are the ones who give you the most feedback on your behavior and thus have the most impact on the choices you make and the ways you change. - Albert Einstein's idea was that it is possible to reduce any theory down to a certain level that makes it as understandable as possible to as many people as feasible, but past a certain point, it would lose its meaning. That point is where a theory is irreducible. << It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. >> Albert Einstein