What Guy Spier thinks about Psychotherapy

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Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.

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8 Sept 2025

Our readingA culture that emphasizes self-esteem over self-knowledge leaves people less equipped to resist doing monstrous things.

Their wordsWe live in a culture that preaches self‑esteem more than self‑knowledge. That leaves people morally flabby-performing virtue while outsourcing the actual discipline that keeps ordinary humans from doing monstrous things.

↗Thoughts on the Conviction of Donna Adelsonguyspier.com 3rd of 3 in this piece