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Without the elementary mathematics of probability in one’s repertoire, one gives everybody else a huge advantage

Drawn from what Charlie Munger said

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

mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

Probabilistic thinking

Which mental models help you think better?under our view: Think in probabilities, and bet big only when the odds are yours

What Charlie Munger actually said

  1. Charlie Munger Warren Buffett's business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
    If you don’t get this elementary, but mildly unnatural, mathematics of elementary probability into your repertoire, then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. You’re giving a huge advantage to everybody else.

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