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Good judgment can be sought mostly by collecting instances of bad judgment and pondering ways to avoid them, in the manner of inversion

Drawn from what Charlie Munger said

Subjectmental models
What this subject means

mental models Thinking tools borrowed across disciplines: inversion, second-order effects, circles of competence, probabilities, incentives.

Mental modelInversion

On the topicWhich mental models help you think better?under our view: Invert, always invert: work the problem backward and avoid what fails

What Charlie Munger actually said

  1. Charlie Munger Warren Buffett's business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
    First, I had long looked for insight by inversion in the intense manner counseled by the great algebraist, Jacobi: “Invert, always invert.” I sought good judgment mostly by collecting instances of bad judgment, then pondering ways to avoid such outcomes.

    Where this was said

    ↗The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (revised text, 2005)fs.blog

    c. 2005

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