Frameworks help you structure your thinking around specific goals.
How to use frameworks to structure your thoughts?
Mindsera’s frameworks are guided thinking for your mind, much like guided meditation is for mindfulness.
These writing templates are built on the most useful mental models, helping you structure your thoughts around specific goals such as problem-solving, decision-making, productivity, and wellness.
Start with the ‘7-Day Journaling Challenge’ to explore different frameworks and make journaling more purposeful, actionable, and transformative.
About mental models & frameworks
“You’ve got to have models in your head and you’ve got to array your experience – both vicarious and direct – onto this latticework of mental models.” – Charlie Munger
Mental models help us understand the world (how reality works), so we can see things from multiple perspectives, have fewer blind spots, and make high-quality decisions.
“Your entire life runs on the software—the models—in your head. Why wouldn't you obsess over optimizing it?” – Tim Urban
The biggest difference between an 'average' mind and a 'genius' is the models in their heads.
“I basicaly load my head full of mental models.” – Naval Ravikant
Frameworks make mental models actionable by helping you structure your thinking around specific goals.
Whether you're looking to make better decisions, improve your overall well-being, or boost your productivity, there's a framework for that.
Why it matters?
Based on McKinsey & WEF reserach, 7 out of 10 future work skills are cognitive. At the same time, you don't learn those skills in University (even Ivy League) based on the study of professor James Flynn.
The best way to train your mind to think in new ways is through structured writing because there's little difference between writing and thinking. Writing is a sophisticated form of thinking.
By utilizing the potency of mental models and frameworks, Mindsera's structured writing templates help you to train your mind to think in novel ways.
Framework categories
We have over 50 mental models and frameworks for various goals.
- Journaling (💬) – Structure your journaling practice with various recurring writing templates.
- Productivity (🚀) – Optimize your time and energy, set and achieve goals, build habits, and make progress faster.
- Decision Making (↔️) – Make short and long-term decisions, assess and analyze your judgment, and get clarity.
- Problem Solving (🧩) – Solve complex problems, think critically, assess root causes, and create innovation.
- Wellness (🌱) – Find purpose and meaning, develop emotional intelligence, improve your energy and wellbeing.
- Business (💼) – Design better products and services, find your niche, and develop a pitch.
Where to browse frameworks?
Click the Frameworks icon (💡) in the main navigation menu to see all frameworks.
How to find the right frameworks for you?
1. Use search with natural language
You can search using natural language to quickly find one that fits your specific needs. Explain what you are looking for and Mindsera recommends you the suitable frameworks.
2. Browse categorias
Browse the list of frameworks. Each framework will provides key details to help you decide if it’s the right fit:
- A brief summary
- The number of questions included
- When it might be useful
- Example responses
By exploring and testing different frameworks, you can find the ones that best support your journaling practice and personal growth.
What are the components of a framework?
The origin of our journaling templates is rooted in both neuroscience and a desire for simplicity.
Writing
Writing is a sophisticated form of thinking. It’s hard to sit down and think. Making your thoughts visual with words makes it much easier for your brain to organize information and make sense of things.
Questions
You don’t need better answers. You need better questions. The better the questions, the more insightful and robust the answers and possibilities created. Questions help you think about a problem or situation where you are uncertain (or too certain), stuck, or unrealistic in your thinking.
Microlearning
Data and knowledge are only useful when it solves a problem at hand. Otherwise, your mind disregards it as not necessary. We serve you the knowledge when your mind is hungry for it, so you can make more connections and come up with valuable insights.
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." – Steve Jobs