Introduction to inversion thinking

- [Announcer] This is an audio course. Thank you for listening. - [Host] This is knowable. - [Instructor] Have you ever heard that saying, hope for the best, but plan for the worst? Some might call this a glass half empty way of looking at the world, and maybe that's true in some ways. But when it comes to business, it's actually a really smart way of thinking. I'm Ryan from Knowable and in this lesson we're learning about mental models. Specifically a model called inversion. Inversion is all about turning problems upside down and evaluating them through a lens of what could go wrong instead of what can I do right? This way we can avoid once unforeseen pitfalls and sometimes actually reverse engineer some totally unexpected maybe counterintuitive solutions to our problems. Are you ready? Let's learn to think backwards. (upbeat music)