Peter Bevelin
Swedish investor and author of Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, a book on human judgment and avoiding errors that draws on biology, psychology and physics and on the thinking of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett.
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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.
↗Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)valueinvestingworld.com 1st of 7 in this piece
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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.
↗Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)valueinvestingworld.com 2nd of 7 in this piece
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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.
↗Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)valueinvestingworld.com 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsI favor ideas that explain a whole range of phenomena.
↗Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)valueinvestingworld.com 4th of 7 in this piece
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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.
↗Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)valueinvestingworld.com 5th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsMost people can do what I did. I am not especially smart or talented. It just takes curiosity and real interest.
↗Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)valueinvestingworld.com 6th of 7 in this piece
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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.
↗Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007)valueinvestingworld.com 7th of 7 in this piece
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