Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)

Peter Bevelin · 17 Oct 2007

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Not all decisions are important, yet some people spend more time on trivial choices than on life-changing ones

Their wordsAlso remember that all decisions aren’t important. Some people spend more time making a judgment on what TV to buy or where to go on vacation than a life-changing decision like marriage.

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Not all decisions are important, yet some people spend more time on trivial choices than on life-changing ones

Their wordsAlso remember that all decisions aren’t important. Some people spend more time making a judgment on what TV to buy or where to go on vacation than a life-changing decision like marriage.
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Learning starts with observing reality and learning the core concepts that account for it

Their wordsLook around you – observe reality. What can explain this? Learn some core concepts that account for reality.
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Focus on understanding useful, important and correct general ideas and their applications

Their wordsUnderstand an idea’s meaning and applications. Focus on useful and obviously important and correct general ideas, concepts and principles.
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Ideas that explain a whole range of phenomena are the ones to favour

Their wordsI favor ideas that explain a whole range of phenomena.
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Some disciplines are more reliable than others, such as those describing experimentally tested ideas

Their wordsAlso, some disciplines are more reliable than others. For example, disciplines describing experimentally tested ideas, concepts and principles.
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Most people could do the learning behind such a book; it takes curiosity and real interest, not special talent

Their wordsMost people can do what I did. I am not especially smart or talented. It just takes curiosity and real interest.
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Acquiring insight into how things work is a worthwhile effort in itself, not only for any payoff

Their wordsUsually I don’t like to answer these questions, not because I don’t believe that the basic insight into how things work will not pay off at some time, but because I believe that acquiring insight is in itself a worthwhile effort.

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