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  Munger's reasons for not making big mistakes: putting reasons for failure into a checklist before decision-making
  “大部分人更关心如何在股市投资上成功，查理（芒格）最关心的却是为什么在股市投资上大部分人都失败了。”这是芒格家族财富主要管理者、喜马拉雅资本创始人李录在《穷查理宝典》的序言中提到的。根据李录的观察，在
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Xiaoya has read it no less than 10 times, reading it at different stages of her life, with different gains.</p><p>Among them, the Chinese preface made by Li Lu for this book is the best interpretation of this book, which is the culmination of Munger and Li Lu's wisdom, which is both investment wisdom and life wisdom.</p><p>Li Lu highly emphasized honesty in knowledge, and opposed dogmatism and simple definitions of things. When Xiaoya asked Mr. Li Lu face-to-face, Li Lu once reminded him not to be dogmatic.</p><p>In a recent interview with the domestic media, Li Lu also mentioned: \"Personally, I am very<b>Against using 'ism' to define many things...investing is a matter of seeking truth from facts</b>。”</p><p>In the preface to the book The Book of Poor Charles, Li Lu actually mentioned it repeatedly<b>Munger \"was never bound by any rules and regulations, nor by any dogma</b>。” Go back and read again, and you will understand more deeply.</p><p>In the preface, Li Lu shared his life experience without hesitation, which will enlighten us how to make choices in our growth; He also generously shared his closer look at Munger, where life wisdom can be seen in the details.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1e6736de7ff6b015d41a94b66f10e85c\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><b>Checklist the reasons for failure before making the right decision</b></p><p>Buffett said he had met countless people in his life and had never met anyone like Charlie.</p><p>I have had the privilege of getting to know Charlie up close and personal in all my years with him, and I am convinced of it. Even in the biographies of ancient and modern people at home and abroad that I have read, I have not found similar people.</p><p>Charlie is such a unique man, and his uniqueness is shown both in his thoughts and in his personality.</p><p>Charlie, for example, always thinks in the opposite direction.</p><p>To understand how happiness can be achieved in life, Charlie will first study how life can be painful;</p><p>To study how enterprises can become stronger and bigger, Charlie first studies how enterprises decline;</p><p><b>Most people are more concerned about how to succeed in stock market investing, but Charlie is most concerned about why most people fail in stock market investing.</b></p><p>His way of thinking is derived from the philosophy contained in the following farmer's proverb:<b>I just want to know where I will die in the future so that I will never go there.</b></p><p>Throughout his long life, Charlie has continuously collected and researched famous failures in various fields such as people, businesses, governance and academic research.<b>Arrange the reasons for those failures into a checklist before making the right decision,</b>This makes him almost never make major mistakes in life and career decisions. The importance of this to Buffett and Berkshire's 50-year performance cannot be overemphasized.</p><p><b>Undogmatic, unbound by rules and regulations</b></p><p>Charlie's mind is original,<b>Never bound by any rules and regulations, nor by any dogma</b>。 He had the curiosity of a child, the research qualities and scientific research methods possessed by a first-rate scientist, and had a strong thirst for knowledge throughout his life, and was interested in almost all questions.</p><p>Any problem in his opinion can be fully mastered by self-study using the correct method, and can be innovated on the basis of predecessors. In this he is very similar to Franklin, similar to an encyclopedic figure of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.</p><p>In modern times, many first-class experts and scholars can be relatively objective in their own narrow research fields, but once they leave their own fields not far, they begin to become subjective, dogmatic, rigid, or simply lose the ability to learn themselves. Therefore, most of them are inevitably blind and touching the elephant.</p><p><b>Charlie's mind never had any discipline</b>。 His thoughts radiate to every corner of his career, life and knowledge.</p><p>In his view, all things in the world and universe are an interacting whole, and all human knowledge is a partial attempt to study this whole. Only by combining these knowledge and running them through a frame of thought can we help in correct cognition and decision-making.</p><p>Therefore, he advocates studying the theories that are really important in all disciplines, and on this basis forming the so-called \"universal wisdom\", which is used as a sharp weapon to study important issues in the field of commercial investment. In this book, Charlie explains in detail how such \"universal wisdom\" can be obtained.</p><p><b>Be honest with knowledge and define your circle of competence</b></p><p>Charlie's way of thinking<b>Based on honesty with knowledge</b>。</p><p>He believes that the world is complex and changeable, and there are always limitations in human cognition, so you must use all the tools, and at the same time pay attention to collecting all kinds of new verifiable evidence and correcting it at any time, that is, the so-called \"knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing\".</p><p>In fact, all people have blind spots in their thoughts. We may be able to be objective about our profession, others or a certain thing, but it is very difficult to be objective about everything in the world, and it can even be said that it is against human nature. But Charlie can be objective in everything.</p><p>In this book, Charlie also talks about how objective spirit can be cultivated through acquired training. And the development of this way of thinking will enable you to see what others can't see and predict the future that others can't predict, thus leading to a happier, freer and more successful life.</p><p>But even then, the foresight one can really get in a lifetime is still very limited, so<b>Right decision-making must be confined to one's \"circle of competence\"</b>。 A capacity that cannot define its boundaries cannot certainly be called a true capacity.</p><p>How can you define your circle of competence? Charlie said,<b>If I am to have an opinion, if I am not able to prove myself better than the smartest, most capable, and most qualified person in the world to refute it, I do not deserve it.</b></p><p>So when Charlie truly holds a certain point of view, his ideas are both original, unique, and almost never mistaken.</p><p><b>To see through the essence of things with reason</b></p><p>Once, a pretty lady seated next to Charlie insisted that Charlie summarize his success in one word, which Charlie said was \"rational\". However,<b>Charlie's \"reason\" is not what we ordinarily understand as reason</b>。 Charlie has a harsher definition of reason.</p><p>It is this \"reason\" that gives Charlie a keen and unique eye and insight, and he can see through the essence of things at a glance even in completely unfamiliar fields.</p><p>Buffett calls this characteristic of Charlie the \"two-minute effect\"-he says Charlie is better than anyone else in the world to explain the nature of a complex business in the shortest amount of time possible. Berkshire's investment in BYD is an example.</p><p>I remember that when I first talked about BYD with Charlie in 2003, although he had never met Wang Chuanfu himself, never visited BYD's factory, and was even relatively unfamiliar with China's market and culture, his questions and comments on BYD at that time still seem to be the most substantial issues for investing in BYD today.</p><p>Everyone has blind spots, no matter how good people are.</p><p>Buffett said: \"Benjamin Greenham once taught me to buy only cheap stocks, and Charlie made me change that mind. This is Charlie's real impact on me. It takes a powerful force to get me out of Greenham's theory of limitations. Charlie's mind is that force, and he expanded my horizons.\"</p><p>I have a deep understanding of this myself. On at least two major issues, Charlie helped me point out blind spots in my thinking, and if it weren't for his help, I would still be slowly crawling through my evolution from ape to man. Buffett has repeatedly emphasized on various occasions for 50 years that Charlie's influence on himself and Berkshire is completely unreplaceable.</p><p>Charlie has spent his life studying catastrophic human mistakes, and has a soft spot for catastrophic mistakes caused by human psychological tendencies. The most contributing is his prediction that the proliferation of financial derivatives and the loopholes of accounting and audit system will bring disaster to mankind.</p><p>As early as the late 1990s, he and Mr. Buffett had proposed that financial derivatives might have a catastrophic impact. As the proliferation of financial derivatives intensified, their warnings escalated, and even pointed out that financial derivatives were financial weapons of mass destruction. If they could not be stopped in time and effectively, they would have a catastrophic impact on modern civilized society.</p><p>The financial tsunamis of 2008 and 2009 and the global depression unfortunately validated Charlie's vision. On the other hand, his research on these problems also provides valuable experience and knowledge for preventing similar disasters, which deserves the attention of government, finance, business and academia.</p><p><b>Solve practical problems and pay attention to detail</b></p><p>Compared to Buffett, Charlie's interests are broader. For example, he has a strong interest and extensive research in almost all fields of science and soft science. Through integration, he has formed an original and unique Munger thought system.</p><p>As opposed to any ideological system that comes from within an ivory tower, Mungerism is born entirely to solve practical problems.</p><p>For example, as far as I know, Charlie was the first to propose and systematically study the enormous influence of human psychological tendencies in investment and business decisions. Today, more than ten years later, behavioral finance has become the hottest research field in economics, and behavioral economics has also won the recognition of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The theoretical framework presented by Charlie in the last lecture of this book, \"The Psychology of Human Misjudgment\", is likely to be widely understood and applied in the future.</p><p>Charlie's interest was not limited to thinking,<b>Everything also like to do it personally, and pay attention to detail.</b></p><p>He has one of the world's largest private catamaran yachts, which he designed himself. He was also a brilliant architect. He built the house to his liking, from the initial drawing design to every detail afterwards, he was involved in the whole process.</p><p>For example, all the buildings he donated were designed by himself, including the Stanford Graduate School dormitory, the Harvard-Westlake School Science Museum, and the Rare Books Research Hall in the Huntington Library and Garden.</p><p>Charlie is naturally energetic. I met Charlie in 1996 when he was 72 years old. By the time Charlie turns 86 this year, it has been more than a dozen years.</p><p>Charlie's energy has remained completely unchanged in these ten years or so. He is always energetic and gets up early. Breakfast meetings always start at 7:30. At the same time, due to some dinner parties, he may sleep less than ordinary people, but these do not hinder his vigorous energy.</p><p>Moreover, his memory is amazing. I have blurred my memory of BYD's operating figures that I told him many years ago, but he still remembers them. At 86, he has a better memory than a young man like me. These were his natural advantages, but the traits that made him exceptionally successful were all acquired by his hard work.</p><p><b>The timing of success is important, but the inner quality of people is more important</b></p><p>For me, Charlie is not only a partner, an elder, a teacher, a friend, a model of success in my career, but also a model in my life. I not only learned the truth of value investment from him, but also learned a lot of the truth of being a human being.</p><p>He made me understand,<b>A person's success is not accidental. Timing is important, but the inner qualities of a person are more important.</b></p><p>Charlie enjoys breakfast dates, usually at half past seven. I remember the first time I had breakfast with Charlie, I arrived on time and found Charlie sitting there reading all the newspapers of the day. Although it was still a few minutes away from half past seven, having a respected old man wait for me made me feel very uncomfortable.</p><p>On the second date, I arrived about a quarter of an hour early and found Charlie still sitting there reading the newspaper.</p><p>By the third date, I arrived half an hour early, and Charlie was still there reading the newspaper, as if he had never left the seat, waiting all year round.</p><p>Until the fourth time, when I arrived an hour earlier, I sat there waiting at half past six, and by six forty-five, Charlie entered leisurely, with a stack of newspapers in his hand, and sat down without looking up, completely unaware of my presence.</p><p>Later, I learned that Charlie<b>Be early on a date with someone</b>。 I don't waste time when I arrive, and I will take out the prepared newspaper and flip through it.</p><p>Ever since I learned of Charlie's habit, I'd always arrive early on our dates, pick up a newspaper to read, leave each other alone, and have breakfast and talk together after 7:30.</p><p>Occasionally Charlie will be late too. Once I took a young entrepreneur from China to meet Charlie. Charlie was half an hour late for arriving from a luncheon.</p><p>Upon arrival, Charlie apologized to the two of us, explained in detail why he was late, and even suggested how the Valet park for the luncheon could be improved so that the waiting time for the guests would not be delayed for 45 minutes.</p><p>The Chinese youth was both surprised and moved, because there was probably no elder in the world with the status of Charlie who would repeatedly apologize to his younger generation for being late.</p><p><b>Integrate into life and get close to ordinary people</b></p><p>In my relationship with Charlie, there was another thing that affected me greatly. One year Charlie and I attended an out of town party together.</p><p>After the event, I was rushing back to New York, but I didn't expect to meet Charlie in the airport terminal. When his huge body passed through the security detector, the detector kept sounding warning for some unknown reason. Charlie turned back again and again to undergo security checks. After struggling for a long time, he finally passed the security checks and his plane had already taken off.</p><p>But Charlie was not in a hurry. He took out the book he was carrying with him and sat down to read, waiting for the next flight. It happened that my plane was delayed that day, so I waited with him.</p><p>I asked Charlie, \"You have your own private jet, and Berkshire has a special jet. Why do you have to go to a commercial airport and go through so much trouble?\"</p><p>Charlie answered, \"First, it would be a waste of gas for me to fly alone. Second, I think it is safer to fly a commercial plane.\" But the real reason Charlie wanted to make was number three: \"<b>All I want in my life is to engage life, and I don't want to be isolated</b>。”</p><p>What Charlie couldn't stand was losing contact with the world because he had money. He isolated himself in a single room and a giant office that occupied a floor. When he met, he had to be informed at various levels. He had to pass five trials and kill six generals. No one could easily contact him. This is disconnected from real life.</p><p>\"As long as I have a book in hand, I don't feel like a waste of time.\" Charlie always carried a book with him, even in the middle seat of economy, as long as he held the book, he was at ease.</p><p>Once he went to a board meeting in Seattle, still flying economy class as usual, with a little Chinese girl sitting next to him, doing calculus homework all the way through the flight.</p><p>He was impressed by the little Chinese girl, because he could hardly imagine that an American girl her age could have the determination to concentrate on her studies amid the noise of a plane. Had he flown on a private jet, he would never have had the opportunity to get up close and personal with the stories of these ordinary people.</p><p><b>Be strict with oneself and be generous with others</b></p><p>Charlie, though strict with himself, is very generous to those he truly cares about and loves, he is not sparing money, always hoping for others to benefit more.</p><p>He traveled alone, business or private, in economy class, but when he traveled with his wife and family, Charlie would fly his own private jet.</p><p>He explained: My wife has paid a lot for me to raise so many children in her life, and she is in poor health. I must take good care of her.</p><p>Although Charlie was not a graduate of Stanford University, he donated more than $60 million to Stanford University because his wife was a Stanford alumnus and a member of the university's board of trustees.</p><p>Once Charlie decides to do one thing, he can do it for the rest of his life. For example, he served on the boards of Harvard-Westlake School and a charity hospital in Los Angeles for 40 years.</p><p>Charlie was a very generous patron of the charities he was involved in. And Charlie has invested more than money, he has invested a lot of time and effort to ensure the success of these institutions.</p><p>Charlie has studied the causes of human failure throughout his life, so he has a deep understanding of the weaknesses of human nature. Based on this, he thinks<b>People have to be strict with themselves, and this lifestyle is a moral requirement for Charlie.</b></p><p>To outsiders, Charlie may look like an ascetic monk, but to Charlie, the process is both rational and enjoyable, enabling a successful and happy life.</p><p>Charlie is so unique. But think about it, if Munger and Buffett weren't so unique, they couldn't have created unprecedented and unprecedented performance for Berkshire in 50 years in the history of human investment.</p><p>In the past 20 years, interest in Buffett and Munger's research has grown worldwide, and may grow in the future. There are many books in Chinese and English, and there are many unique insights in them.</p><p>To be honest, it is actually too early to evaluate Munger's thinking by my current ability, because to this day, every time I talk to Charlie and every time I reread his speech, I have something new to gain.</p><p>On the other hand, it also shows that my understanding of his thoughts is still insufficient. 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Xiaoya has read it no less than 10 times, reading it at different stages of her life, with different gains.</p><p>Among them, the Chinese preface made by Li Lu for this book is the best interpretation of this book, which is the culmination of Munger and Li Lu's wisdom, which is both investment wisdom and life wisdom.</p><p>Li Lu highly emphasized honesty in knowledge, and opposed dogmatism and simple definitions of things. When Xiaoya asked Mr. Li Lu face-to-face, Li Lu once reminded him not to be dogmatic.</p><p>In a recent interview with the domestic media, Li Lu also mentioned: \"Personally, I am very<b>Against using 'ism' to define many things...investing is a matter of seeking truth from facts</b>。”</p><p>In the preface to the book The Book of Poor Charles, Li Lu actually mentioned it repeatedly<b>Munger \"was never bound by any rules and regulations, nor by any dogma</b>。” Go back and read again, and you will understand more deeply.</p><p>In the preface, Li Lu shared his life experience without hesitation, which will enlighten us how to make choices in our growth; He also generously shared his closer look at Munger, where life wisdom can be seen in the details.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1e6736de7ff6b015d41a94b66f10e85c\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><b>Checklist the reasons for failure before making the right decision</b></p><p>Buffett said he had met countless people in his life and had never met anyone like Charlie.</p><p>I have had the privilege of getting to know Charlie up close and personal in all my years with him, and I am convinced of it. Even in the biographies of ancient and modern people at home and abroad that I have read, I have not found similar people.</p><p>Charlie is such a unique man, and his uniqueness is shown both in his thoughts and in his personality.</p><p>Charlie, for example, always thinks in the opposite direction.</p><p>To understand how happiness can be achieved in life, Charlie will first study how life can be painful;</p><p>To study how enterprises can become stronger and bigger, Charlie first studies how enterprises decline;</p><p><b>Most people are more concerned about how to succeed in stock market investing, but Charlie is most concerned about why most people fail in stock market investing.</b></p><p>His way of thinking is derived from the philosophy contained in the following farmer's proverb:<b>I just want to know where I will die in the future so that I will never go there.</b></p><p>Throughout his long life, Charlie has continuously collected and researched famous failures in various fields such as people, businesses, governance and academic research.<b>Arrange the reasons for those failures into a checklist before making the right decision,</b>This makes him almost never make major mistakes in life and career decisions. The importance of this to Buffett and Berkshire's 50-year performance cannot be overemphasized.</p><p><b>Undogmatic, unbound by rules and regulations</b></p><p>Charlie's mind is original,<b>Never bound by any rules and regulations, nor by any dogma</b>。 He had the curiosity of a child, the research qualities and scientific research methods possessed by a first-rate scientist, and had a strong thirst for knowledge throughout his life, and was interested in almost all questions.</p><p>Any problem in his opinion can be fully mastered by self-study using the correct method, and can be innovated on the basis of predecessors. In this he is very similar to Franklin, similar to an encyclopedic figure of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.</p><p>In modern times, many first-class experts and scholars can be relatively objective in their own narrow research fields, but once they leave their own fields not far, they begin to become subjective, dogmatic, rigid, or simply lose the ability to learn themselves. Therefore, most of them are inevitably blind and touching the elephant.</p><p><b>Charlie's mind never had any discipline</b>。 His thoughts radiate to every corner of his career, life and knowledge.</p><p>In his view, all things in the world and universe are an interacting whole, and all human knowledge is a partial attempt to study this whole. Only by combining these knowledge and running them through a frame of thought can we help in correct cognition and decision-making.</p><p>Therefore, he advocates studying the theories that are really important in all disciplines, and on this basis forming the so-called \"universal wisdom\", which is used as a sharp weapon to study important issues in the field of commercial investment. In this book, Charlie explains in detail how such \"universal wisdom\" can be obtained.</p><p><b>Be honest with knowledge and define your circle of competence</b></p><p>Charlie's way of thinking<b>Based on honesty with knowledge</b>。</p><p>He believes that the world is complex and changeable, and there are always limitations in human cognition, so you must use all the tools, and at the same time pay attention to collecting all kinds of new verifiable evidence and correcting it at any time, that is, the so-called \"knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing\".</p><p>In fact, all people have blind spots in their thoughts. We may be able to be objective about our profession, others or a certain thing, but it is very difficult to be objective about everything in the world, and it can even be said that it is against human nature. But Charlie can be objective in everything.</p><p>In this book, Charlie also talks about how objective spirit can be cultivated through acquired training. And the development of this way of thinking will enable you to see what others can't see and predict the future that others can't predict, thus leading to a happier, freer and more successful life.</p><p>But even then, the foresight one can really get in a lifetime is still very limited, so<b>Right decision-making must be confined to one's \"circle of competence\"</b>。 A capacity that cannot define its boundaries cannot certainly be called a true capacity.</p><p>How can you define your circle of competence? Charlie said,<b>If I am to have an opinion, if I am not able to prove myself better than the smartest, most capable, and most qualified person in the world to refute it, I do not deserve it.</b></p><p>So when Charlie truly holds a certain point of view, his ideas are both original, unique, and almost never mistaken.</p><p><b>To see through the essence of things with reason</b></p><p>Once, a pretty lady seated next to Charlie insisted that Charlie summarize his success in one word, which Charlie said was \"rational\". However,<b>Charlie's \"reason\" is not what we ordinarily understand as reason</b>。 Charlie has a harsher definition of reason.</p><p>It is this \"reason\" that gives Charlie a keen and unique eye and insight, and he can see through the essence of things at a glance even in completely unfamiliar fields.</p><p>Buffett calls this characteristic of Charlie the \"two-minute effect\"-he says Charlie is better than anyone else in the world to explain the nature of a complex business in the shortest amount of time possible. Berkshire's investment in BYD is an example.</p><p>I remember that when I first talked about BYD with Charlie in 2003, although he had never met Wang Chuanfu himself, never visited BYD's factory, and was even relatively unfamiliar with China's market and culture, his questions and comments on BYD at that time still seem to be the most substantial issues for investing in BYD today.</p><p>Everyone has blind spots, no matter how good people are.</p><p>Buffett said: \"Benjamin Greenham once taught me to buy only cheap stocks, and Charlie made me change that mind. This is Charlie's real impact on me. It takes a powerful force to get me out of Greenham's theory of limitations. Charlie's mind is that force, and he expanded my horizons.\"</p><p>I have a deep understanding of this myself. On at least two major issues, Charlie helped me point out blind spots in my thinking, and if it weren't for his help, I would still be slowly crawling through my evolution from ape to man. Buffett has repeatedly emphasized on various occasions for 50 years that Charlie's influence on himself and Berkshire is completely unreplaceable.</p><p>Charlie has spent his life studying catastrophic human mistakes, and has a soft spot for catastrophic mistakes caused by human psychological tendencies. The most contributing is his prediction that the proliferation of financial derivatives and the loopholes of accounting and audit system will bring disaster to mankind.</p><p>As early as the late 1990s, he and Mr. Buffett had proposed that financial derivatives might have a catastrophic impact. As the proliferation of financial derivatives intensified, their warnings escalated, and even pointed out that financial derivatives were financial weapons of mass destruction. If they could not be stopped in time and effectively, they would have a catastrophic impact on modern civilized society.</p><p>The financial tsunamis of 2008 and 2009 and the global depression unfortunately validated Charlie's vision. On the other hand, his research on these problems also provides valuable experience and knowledge for preventing similar disasters, which deserves the attention of government, finance, business and academia.</p><p><b>Solve practical problems and pay attention to detail</b></p><p>Compared to Buffett, Charlie's interests are broader. For example, he has a strong interest and extensive research in almost all fields of science and soft science. Through integration, he has formed an original and unique Munger thought system.</p><p>As opposed to any ideological system that comes from within an ivory tower, Mungerism is born entirely to solve practical problems.</p><p>For example, as far as I know, Charlie was the first to propose and systematically study the enormous influence of human psychological tendencies in investment and business decisions. Today, more than ten years later, behavioral finance has become the hottest research field in economics, and behavioral economics has also won the recognition of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The theoretical framework presented by Charlie in the last lecture of this book, \"The Psychology of Human Misjudgment\", is likely to be widely understood and applied in the future.</p><p>Charlie's interest was not limited to thinking,<b>Everything also like to do it personally, and pay attention to detail.</b></p><p>He has one of the world's largest private catamaran yachts, which he designed himself. He was also a brilliant architect. He built the house to his liking, from the initial drawing design to every detail afterwards, he was involved in the whole process.</p><p>For example, all the buildings he donated were designed by himself, including the Stanford Graduate School dormitory, the Harvard-Westlake School Science Museum, and the Rare Books Research Hall in the Huntington Library and Garden.</p><p>Charlie is naturally energetic. I met Charlie in 1996 when he was 72 years old. By the time Charlie turns 86 this year, it has been more than a dozen years.</p><p>Charlie's energy has remained completely unchanged in these ten years or so. He is always energetic and gets up early. Breakfast meetings always start at 7:30. At the same time, due to some dinner parties, he may sleep less than ordinary people, but these do not hinder his vigorous energy.</p><p>Moreover, his memory is amazing. I have blurred my memory of BYD's operating figures that I told him many years ago, but he still remembers them. At 86, he has a better memory than a young man like me. These were his natural advantages, but the traits that made him exceptionally successful were all acquired by his hard work.</p><p><b>The timing of success is important, but the inner quality of people is more important</b></p><p>For me, Charlie is not only a partner, an elder, a teacher, a friend, a model of success in my career, but also a model in my life. I not only learned the truth of value investment from him, but also learned a lot of the truth of being a human being.</p><p>He made me understand,<b>A person's success is not accidental. Timing is important, but the inner qualities of a person are more important.</b></p><p>Charlie enjoys breakfast dates, usually at half past seven. I remember the first time I had breakfast with Charlie, I arrived on time and found Charlie sitting there reading all the newspapers of the day. Although it was still a few minutes away from half past seven, having a respected old man wait for me made me feel very uncomfortable.</p><p>On the second date, I arrived about a quarter of an hour early and found Charlie still sitting there reading the newspaper.</p><p>By the third date, I arrived half an hour early, and Charlie was still there reading the newspaper, as if he had never left the seat, waiting all year round.</p><p>Until the fourth time, when I arrived an hour earlier, I sat there waiting at half past six, and by six forty-five, Charlie entered leisurely, with a stack of newspapers in his hand, and sat down without looking up, completely unaware of my presence.</p><p>Later, I learned that Charlie<b>Be early on a date with someone</b>。 I don't waste time when I arrive, and I will take out the prepared newspaper and flip through it.</p><p>Ever since I learned of Charlie's habit, I'd always arrive early on our dates, pick up a newspaper to read, leave each other alone, and have breakfast and talk together after 7:30.</p><p>Occasionally Charlie will be late too. Once I took a young entrepreneur from China to meet Charlie. Charlie was half an hour late for arriving from a luncheon.</p><p>Upon arrival, Charlie apologized to the two of us, explained in detail why he was late, and even suggested how the Valet park for the luncheon could be improved so that the waiting time for the guests would not be delayed for 45 minutes.</p><p>The Chinese youth was both surprised and moved, because there was probably no elder in the world with the status of Charlie who would repeatedly apologize to his younger generation for being late.</p><p><b>Integrate into life and get close to ordinary people</b></p><p>In my relationship with Charlie, there was another thing that affected me greatly. One year Charlie and I attended an out of town party together.</p><p>After the event, I was rushing back to New York, but I didn't expect to meet Charlie in the airport terminal. When his huge body passed through the security detector, the detector kept sounding warning for some unknown reason. Charlie turned back again and again to undergo security checks. After struggling for a long time, he finally passed the security checks and his plane had already taken off.</p><p>But Charlie was not in a hurry. He took out the book he was carrying with him and sat down to read, waiting for the next flight. It happened that my plane was delayed that day, so I waited with him.</p><p>I asked Charlie, \"You have your own private jet, and Berkshire has a special jet. Why do you have to go to a commercial airport and go through so much trouble?\"</p><p>Charlie answered, \"First, it would be a waste of gas for me to fly alone. Second, I think it is safer to fly a commercial plane.\" But the real reason Charlie wanted to make was number three: \"<b>All I want in my life is to engage life, and I don't want to be isolated</b>。”</p><p>What Charlie couldn't stand was losing contact with the world because he had money. He isolated himself in a single room and a giant office that occupied a floor. When he met, he had to be informed at various levels. He had to pass five trials and kill six generals. No one could easily contact him. This is disconnected from real life.</p><p>\"As long as I have a book in hand, I don't feel like a waste of time.\" Charlie always carried a book with him, even in the middle seat of economy, as long as he held the book, he was at ease.</p><p>Once he went to a board meeting in Seattle, still flying economy class as usual, with a little Chinese girl sitting next to him, doing calculus homework all the way through the flight.</p><p>He was impressed by the little Chinese girl, because he could hardly imagine that an American girl her age could have the determination to concentrate on her studies amid the noise of a plane. Had he flown on a private jet, he would never have had the opportunity to get up close and personal with the stories of these ordinary people.</p><p><b>Be strict with oneself and be generous with others</b></p><p>Charlie, though strict with himself, is very generous to those he truly cares about and loves, he is not sparing money, always hoping for others to benefit more.</p><p>He traveled alone, business or private, in economy class, but when he traveled with his wife and family, Charlie would fly his own private jet.</p><p>He explained: My wife has paid a lot for me to raise so many children in her life, and she is in poor health. I must take good care of her.</p><p>Although Charlie was not a graduate of Stanford University, he donated more than $60 million to Stanford University because his wife was a Stanford alumnus and a member of the university's board of trustees.</p><p>Once Charlie decides to do one thing, he can do it for the rest of his life. For example, he served on the boards of Harvard-Westlake School and a charity hospital in Los Angeles for 40 years.</p><p>Charlie was a very generous patron of the charities he was involved in. And Charlie has invested more than money, he has invested a lot of time and effort to ensure the success of these institutions.</p><p>Charlie has studied the causes of human failure throughout his life, so he has a deep understanding of the weaknesses of human nature. Based on this, he thinks<b>People have to be strict with themselves, and this lifestyle is a moral requirement for Charlie.</b></p><p>To outsiders, Charlie may look like an ascetic monk, but to Charlie, the process is both rational and enjoyable, enabling a successful and happy life.</p><p>Charlie is so unique. But think about it, if Munger and Buffett weren't so unique, they couldn't have created unprecedented and unprecedented performance for Berkshire in 50 years in the history of human investment.</p><p>In the past 20 years, interest in Buffett and Munger's research has grown worldwide, and may grow in the future. There are many books in Chinese and English, and there are many unique insights in them.</p><p>To be honest, it is actually too early to evaluate Munger's thinking by my current ability, because to this day, every time I talk to Charlie and every time I reread his speech, I have something new to gain.</p><p>On the other hand, it also shows that my understanding of his thoughts is still insufficient. But Charlie's words and deeds over the years have given me the privilege of having a more intuitive understanding of Charlie's thoughts and personality, and I just want to share my own close observations and personal experiences with readers.</p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> source：<a 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park）应如何改进才不会耽误客人45分钟的等候时间。那位中国青年既惊讶又感动，因为在全世界恐怕找不到一位地位如查理一般的长者会因迟到而向小辈反复道歉。融入生活，近距离地接触普通人在跟查理的交往中，另有一件事对我影响很大。有一年查理和我共同参加了一个外地的聚会。活动结束后，我要赶回纽约，没想到却在机场的候机厅遇见查理。他庞大的身体在过安检检测器的时候，不知什么原因导致检测器不断鸣叫示警。而查理就一次又一次地折返接受安检，如此折腾半天，好不容易过了安检，他的飞机已经起飞了。可查理也不着急，他抽出随身携带的书坐下来阅读，静等下一班飞机。那天正好我的飞机也误点了，我就陪他一起等。我问查理：“你有自己的私人飞机，伯克希尔也有专机，你为什么要到商用客机机场去经受这么多的麻烦呢？”查理答：“第一，我一个人坐专机太浪费油了。第二，我觉得坐商用飞机更安全。”但查理想说的真正理由是第三条：“我一辈子想要的就是融入生活（engage life），我不希望自己被孤立（isolated）。”查理最受不了的就是因为拥有了钱财而失去与世界的联系，把自己隔绝在一个单间，隔绝在占地一层的巨型办公室里，见面要层层通报，过五关斩六将，谁都不能轻易接触到。这样就与现实生活脱节了。“手里只要有一本书，我就不会觉得浪费时间。”查理任何时候都随身携带一本书，即使坐在经济舱的中间座位上，他只要拿着书，就安之若素。有一次他去西雅图参加一个董事会，依旧按惯例坐经济舱，他身边坐着一位中国小女孩，飞行途中一直在做微积分的功课。他对这个中国小女孩印象深刻，因为他很难想像同龄的美国女孩能有这样的定力，在飞机的嘈杂声中专心学习。如果他乘坐私人飞机，他就永远不会有机会近距离接触这些普通人的故事。严于律己，宽厚待人查理虽然严于律己，却非常宽厚地对待他真正关心和爱的人，他不吝金钱，总希望他人能多受益。他一个人的旅行，无论公务私务都搭乘经济舱，但与太太和家人一起旅行时，查理便会乘搭自己的私人飞机。他解释说：太太一辈子为我抚育这么多孩子，付出甚多，身体又不好，我一定要照顾好她。查理虽不是斯坦福大学毕业的，但因他太太是斯坦福校友，又是大学董事会成员，查理便向斯坦福大学捐款6000多万美金。查理一旦确定了做一件事情，他可以做一辈子。比如说他在哈佛—西湖学校及洛杉矶一间慈善医院的董事会任职长达40年之久。对于他所参与的慈善机构而言，查理是非常慷慨的赞助人。而且查理投入的不只是钱，他还投入了大量的时间和精力，以确保这些机构的成功运行。查理一生研究人类失败的原因，所以对人性的弱点有着深刻的理解。基于此，他认为人对自己要严格要求，这种生活方式对查理而言是一种道德要求。在外人看来，查理可能像个苦行僧，但在查理看来，这个过程却是既理性又愉快的，能够让人过上成功、幸福的人生。查理就是这么独特。但是想想看，如果芒格和巴菲特不是如此独特的话，他们也不可能一起在50年间为伯克希尔创造出在人类投资史上前无古人、后无来者的业绩。近20年来，全世界范围内对巴菲特、芒格研究的兴趣愈发地强烈，将来可能还会愈演愈烈，中英文的书籍汗牛充栋，其中也不乏独到的见解。说实话，由我目前的能力来评价芒格的思想其实为时尚早，因为直到今天，我每次和查理谈话，每次重读他的演讲，都会有新的收获。这另一方面也说明，我对他的思想理解还是不够。但这些年来查理对我的言传身教，使我有幸对查理的思想和人格有更直观的了解，我这里只想跟读者分享我自己近距离的观察和亲身体会。","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"BRK.A":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1655,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"defaultTab":"posts","isTTM":true}