## Core ideas that helped Charlie Munger - The safest way to try and get what you want is to try and deserve what you want. - You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end. - There's no love that's so right as admiration based love and that love should include the instructive dead. - Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. - it's not something you do just to advance in life - The rapid advance of civilization came only when man invented the method of invention. ~ Alfred North Whitehead - You can progress only when you learn the method of learning. - “A legal mind is a mind that when two things are all twisted up together and interacting, it’s feasible to think responsibly about one thing and not the other.” -  “A man who doesn’t know what happened before he was born goes through life like a child.” - Big ideas: You have to learn these things in such a way that they’re in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. - The way complex adaptive systems work and the way mental constructs work; problems frequently get easier and I would even say usually are easier to solve if you turn around in reverse. - inversion will help you solve problems that you can’t solve in other ways. - Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one’s mind. - A big whirlpool is not something you want to go into and I think the same is true about a really deep ideology. - Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. - “If you want to persuade, appeal to interest not to reason.” - Another thing: perverse incentives. You don’t want to be in a perverse incentive system that’s causing you to behave more and more foolishly or worse and worse. - Incentives are too powerful a controller of human cognition and human behavior, and one of the things you are going to find in some modern law firms is billable hour quotas - Perverse Associations: And you particularly want to avoid working directly under somebody you really don’t admire and don’t want to be like. - The way I solved that is I figured out the people I did admire and I maneuvered cleverly, without criticizing anybody, so I was working entirely under people I admired. - Objectivity Maintenance: Checklist routines avoid a lot of errors. You should have all this elementary wisdom and then you should go through and have a checklist in order to use it. - non-egality: You want to get the power into the right people. - In this world, we have two kinds of knowledge. - One is Planck knowledge—the people who really know. They’ve paid the dues, they have the aptitude. - Then, we’ve got chauffeur knowledge—they have learned to prattle the talk and they have a big head of hair. They may have fine timbre in the voice. They really make a hell of an impression. But in the end, they’ve got chauffeur knowledge. - If at all feasible you want to drift into doing something in which you really have a natural interest. - assiduity: sit down in your ass until you do it. - every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. - The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another. - Valiant-for-Truth in The Pilgrim’s Progress: “My sword I leave to him who can wear it.” _“The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.”_