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January 9 - January 9, 2022
Basically, if someone is using a lot of fancy words and a lot of big concepts, they probably don’t know what they’re talking about. I think the smartest people can explain things to a child. If you can’t explain it to a child, then you don’t know it. It’s a common saying and it’s very true.
The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant—it’s the desire to learn that is scarce. [3]
Read what you love until you love to read.
Reading a book isn’t a race—the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.
“As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.” —Charlie Munger
If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.
Be yourself, with passionate intensity.
“Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.”
Do you agree with the idea “If you read what everybody else is reading, you’re going to think what everyone else is thinking”? I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval. [4]
If you hurt other people because they have expectations of you, that’s their problem. If they have an agreement with you, it’s your problem. But, if they have an expectation of you, that’s completely their problem. It has nothing to do with you. They’re going to have lots of expectations out of life. The sooner you can dash their expectations, the better. [1] Courage isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think.
