Scientific Definition
How richly interconnected your mental models are across disciplines — higher density means more cross-pollination per new fact.
Plain-English Definition
How richly interconnected your mental models are across disciplines — higher density means more cross-pollination per new fact.
Feynman Explanation
A fact in isolation is a trivia card. The same fact in a lattice is a strategy.
Core Principle
How richly interconnected your mental models are across disciplines — higher density means more cross-pollination per new fact.
Mechanisms
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How richly interconnected your mental models are across disciplines — higher density means more cross-pollination per new fact.
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Strategic creativity scales with lattice density, not headcount.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
A fact in isolation is a trivia card. The same fact in a lattice is a strategy.
Examples
- Munger explicitly designs his reading to add cross-discipline links.
- Strategic creativity scales with lattice density, not headcount.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- When you learn something, ask: 'What three models from other fields does this connect to?'
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- When you learn something, ask: 'What three models from other fields does this connect to?'
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Interactive Mini Network
Click any neighbor to re-center the graph and follow the threads of connection.
Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
A diverse set of models from many disciplines, used together.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
Wallace J. Nichols: proximity to water reliably shifts the nervous system toward a calmer, more creative state.
Resourcing past memories with the state you needed at the time, so old triggers stop firing the old response.
Grouping information into familiar units to improve memory and processing.
Compressing many small patterns into one larger unit your mind treats as a single object.
Anchor a peak resourceful state to an imagined spot on the floor; step into it on demand before high-stakes moments.