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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Not all decisions are important, yet some people spend more time on trivial choices than on life-changing ones
Also 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.
valueinvestingworld.comSaid 17 Oct 2007This on korrents
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Not all decisions are important, yet some people spend more time on trivial choices than on life-changing ones
Also 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) Said 17 Oct 2007
Learning starts with observing reality and learning the core concepts that account for it
Look 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) Said 17 Oct 2007
Focus on understanding useful, important and correct general ideas and their applications
Understand 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) Said 17 Oct 2007
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Ideas that explain a whole range of phenomena are the ones to favour
I favor ideas that explain a whole range of phenomena.
Interview with Peter Bevelin, author of Seeking Wisdom (Value Investing World, 2007) Said 17 Oct 2007
Some disciplines are more reliable than others, such as those describing experimentally tested ideas
Also, 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) Said 17 Oct 2007
Acquiring insight into how things work is a worthwhile effort in itself, not only for any payoff
Usually 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) Said 17 Oct 2007
Most people could do the learning behind such a book; it takes curiosity and real interest, not special talent
Most 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) Said 17 Oct 2007
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