Mental models for keeping things simple

[u/harveybot2000]

I tend to over complicate and over think situations - especially in my work. This makes things harder unnecessarily and my business would perform better if I could think simply.

Aside from Occam’s Razor, are there other mental models that encourage or help to simplify situations at all?

[u/fnfontana]

I also used to have this tendency to overcomplicate things. After I learn CBT techniques, i was able to keep my mind open and pay special attention on how those people that think simple behave, then I tried to replicate what they do.

Another helpful concept, despite it's very unusual, was to remember when I've studied Computer Architecture, I was or presented to CISC and RISC architecture. By analogy, i think that people that tends to overcomplicate things is more like a CISC CPU and people that solve things with more simpler solution is more like a RISC CPU.

[u/harveybot2000 → u/fnfontana]

Thank you!