Inverse thinking involves looking at the question from the inverted perspective. For example, in the Bayes Theorem example experiment of librarian vs. farmer: instead of thinking about how likely the described person is to be a librarian, you think about how likely the described person is to be a non-librarian(farmer). Another example, instead of thinking about being right more, focus on being âwrong lessâ in Decision Making1.
1. Weinberg, G. & McCann, L. Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models. (Portfolio, 2019).