You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.
—Charlie Munger
10 books that will change the way you see the world
- Dialogues, Seneca
- Reality is not what it seems
- Structures, Gordon
- Ice Age, Gribbin
- The Beak of the Finch
- The Selfish Gene
- Emotional Intelligence
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Why Nations Fail
- Prisoners of Geography
"You have to learn all the big ideas in the key disciplines in a way that they’re in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life."
- Charlie Munger
We are living the best moment in history:
- We have all the knowledge at one click
- We have internet access, the largest lever ever created
- If you add value, the whole world will listen to you, no matter who and where you are
It has never been easier to design your own life.
If you read the 10 most important books in a field of knowledge, you will be in the top 1% of those who know the most about that field.
If you do it with the 10 most important fields, you will be in the 1% of those who most know how the world works.
A year ago I created this Twitter account.
Today I have a business that I can live on.
Thank you all for making this dream possible, especially
@LifeMathMoney
,
@naval
and
@jackbutcher
The Internet has changed the rules, you are much closer than you think.
This has just begun.
When Jeff Bezos met Warren Buffett.
— Bezos: Warren, your investing strategy is so simple. Why doesn’t everyone just copy you?
— Buffett: Because nobody wants to get rich slow.
@naval
Most important mental models applied here:
- Scale
- Compound interest
- Leverage
- Niches
- Cooperation
- Adaptation
- Incentives
- Skin in the game
- Specialization
- Supply and demand
- Circle of competence
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