Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-investor and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charles Munger. A man whose simplicity and clarity of thought was unequal to anything Bevelin had seen.
In addition to naturalist Charles Darwin and Munger, Bevelin cites an encyclopedic range of thinkers: from first-century BCE Roman poet Publius Terentius to Mark Twain—from Albert Einstein to Richard Feynman—from 16th Century French essayist Michel de Montaigne to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett. In the book, he describes ideas and research findings from many different fields.
This book is for those who love the constant search for knowledge. It is in the spirit of Charles Munger, who says, "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." There are roads that lead to unhappiness. An understanding of how and why we can "die" should help us avoid them. We can't eliminate mistakes, but we can prevent those that can really hurt us.
Using exemplars of clear thinking and attained wisdom, Bevelin focuses on how our thoughts are influenced, why we make misjudgments and tools to improve our thinking. Bevelin tackles such eternal questions as: Why do we behave like we do? What do we want out of life? What interferes with our goals?
Read and study this wonderful multidisciplinary exploration of wisdom. It may change the way you think and act in business and in life.
- 融合多学科思维模型，从达尔文到芒格
- 深入剖析人类误判的心理与生理根源
- 提供避免决策错误的实用智慧清单
- 查理·芒格与价值投资的忠实追随者
- 希望提升决策质量与批判性思维者
- 对心理学、进化论及跨学科思维感兴趣者
- 内容多为名家观点汇编，非原创理论
- 适合已有基础者系统梳理，新手慎入
- 重点阅读误判心理学章节，结合实践
- 被誉为芒格思维模式的精华浓缩版
- 引用丰富但被指缺乏深度原创见解
- 部分读者认为内容枯燥，阅读门槛高
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "This means that humans have spent more than 99% of their evolutionary history in the hunter gatherer environment."
- "The strategy that is effective in the long run is a modern version of"a tooth for a tooth" or TIT-FOR-TAT. It says that we should cooperate at the first meeting and then do whatever our "opponent" did the last time."
- "The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - 17th Century French philosopher Rene Descartes."
- "If we encounter a stressful situation, how we respond depends on what we were born with, what we have experienced, and the specific situation."
- "The connections in our brain are constantly strengthened and weakened, developing and changing. The more we are exposed to certain experiences, the more the specific connections are strengthened, and the better we learn and remember those experiences. We then use these stored representations of what"
- "The forces that influence and set the limits for our judgements: 1. Genes 2. Life experiences 3. Present environment 4. Randomness"
- "A list of reasons for misjudgments and mistakes 1. Bias from mere association - automatically connecting a stimulus with pain or pleasure; including liking or disliking something associated with something bad or good. Includes seeing situations as identical because they seem similar. Also bias from "
- "Warren Buffett says on being informed of bad news: "We only give a couple of instructions to people when they go to work for us: One si to think like an owner. And the second is to tell us bad news immediately--because good news takes care of itself. We can take bad news, but we don't like it late.""
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