“芒格从物理学家那里学会了通过寻找最简单、最直接的答案来解决问题。最容易的方法永远都是最好的方法。芒格又从数学家那里学会了将问题倒过来看，或者从反面去看，反转，再反转。”

“芒格运用这种倒转的方法抓住了最小的儿子菲利普毕业班学生们的注意力。那是1986年，他在哈佛-西湖中学进行毕业致辞。芒格告诉学生们他关于生活的处方是基于约翰尼·卡森的一次演讲。演讲期间卡森列举了一个人如何做会导致生活过得悲惨。这些事情包括：为转变心情或提高注意力摄入各种化学物质，在妒忌中浮沉，以及在憎恨中翻滚。他举了一个自己所熟悉的年轻人的例子，这个人后来成了酒鬼，余生都在竭力摆脱各种恶魔的纠缠。这三种行为只要沾上一样，或者三样都有的话，你就一定会过得很不愉快。接着芒格又补充了他自己认为也会让人失败的四种行为，分别是：为人不可靠；做所有事情都只根据自己的经验，不听听别人的意见；在第一、第二或第三次挫折后就放弃；向逻辑模糊的思考方式投降。“…… “父亲在我很小的时候告诉过我一个故事，有一个粗野的农夫说：‘我希望能知道自己会死在哪里，然后我就永远都不去那个地方就好了。’”

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“Researchers at Emory University in the US set about comparing the brains and cognitive skills of meditators to a similar group of non-meditators. In the control group they found that the older participants had lower accuracy and speed of response, as you might expect. However, this age-related decline was not found in the meditators. Using sophisticated brain-mapping techniques they discovered that the reduction in grey matter that typically comes with aging had actually been offset by the meditation.”

“ By changing the way in which you see the world, you effectively change the world around you.”

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Get Some Headspace: 10 minutes can make all the difference

这些都来自同样的动力，同一个梦想。
能帮助人们避开一般挫折是很好的事情。我想告诉大家要按
下暂停键，花时间努力思考一下要如何度过一生，想要和谁一起
度过剩余的40年。我会告诉20岁左右的青年不要因为一份工作、
专业甚至职业而安定下来，
一定要寻求内心的冲动。即使你不知
道其中的含义，也要坚持追寻。如果你追随自己内心的冲动，将
会更能忍受疲惫，每一次失望都会成为你的动力，需要攀登的高
峰也会变得微不足道起来。

The world was so overrun with war and pain and misery, the daily grind was so exhasuting and often unjust - maybe the only answer, I thought, was to find some prodigious, improbable dream that seemed worthy, that seemed fun, that seemed a good fit, and chase it with an athlete's single-minded dedication and purpose. Like it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies that truth, whoever simply refuses to play, get left on the sidelines, and I didn't want that. More than anything, that was the thing I did not want.

我们都无法忍受公司的那套
繁文缛节，都想用一种游戏的方式来工作；当然是有意义的游戏
。我们正努力斩杀巨人哥利亚，虽然斯特拉瑟比两个哥利亚还要
壮，但是他却有一颗大卫般的心。我说我们不仅要创立一个品牌
，更要打造一种文化。我们正在与千篇一律、无聊乏味做斗争。
我们卖的不仅仅是一种产品，更是一种理念、
一种精神。我自己
都不知道是否完全搞清了我们是谁以及我们在干什么，直到那天
我听到了自己对斯特拉瑟说的话。

This is not a business where you take polls, this is a business where you think.

——Warren Buffett

“Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business. We do that because we like that kind of a life. But we’ve turned that quirk into a positive outcome for ourselves.” Charlie Munger

The best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and just think. ANd if that doesn't work, nothing else is going to work.

——Warren Buffett

I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impluse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like the kind of life.

——Warren Buffett

I'm very selective. I, sometimes, skim. I sometimes read one chapter and I sometimes read the damn thing twice. It's been my experience in life that if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

——Charlie Munger

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through varacious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

——Charlie Munger

If you can set your life up in a manner which gives you large chunks of time to do reading, but reading not from the context of 'I'm going to do an investment', but reading from the context of getting better at knowing how the world works. You get to wisdom which is different from just being smart. You can build up an advantage over your peers.

我想要每个人都在追求的东西——做自己，全身心地。

实际上，在1965年，跑步甚至不算是一种运动。跑步并不是
广受欢迎的运动，但也不是无人问津，它只是一种常见的运动罢
了。人们认为，出门跑上8公里是怪胎才会做的事情，可能只是为
了燃烧、释放疯狂的精力。为了愉快而跑步，为了锻炼而跑步，
为了产生内啡肽（endorphin）而跑步，为了更健康长寿而跑步——
这些事情都是闻所未闻的。

happiness is a how, not a what.

在驱车返回波特兰的路上，我都在思考自己的销售大获成功
的原因。我认为我之所以没法销售百科全书，是因为自己打从心
眼里瞧不起它。销售共同基金时表现也只是稍有改进，因为我没
有投入热情。那为什么卖鞋会如此不同呢？那是因为我发现这不
是在销售，而是我对跑步的信仰。我坚信如果人们每天外出跑上
几公里，世界就会变得更美好，我也坚信这些鞋更适合跑步。人
们在感受到我的信念后，也会想要为自己打造这种信念。
传播信念，我决定。信念才是不可抵抗的。

Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslke.

It should come as no surprise that Warren Buffett, Grahama's most famous student, adpoted the same thinking. Stock as business has been the cornerstone of Warren's investment approach for 65 years. A stock market, he once said, is by no means essential; a prolonged suspension of trading in the securities we hold would not bother us any more than odes the lack of daily quotations on World Book or Fechheimer, two of Berkshire's wholly owner businesses. Eventually, our economic fate will be determined by the economic fate of the business we own, whether our ownership is partial or totla. As far as I am concened, he adds, the stock market doesn't exist. It is there only to see if anybody is offering to do something foolish.

只有找对了雪地才可以滚雪球，我就是这样做的。我所指的不仅仅是赚钱方面，在 认识世界、结交朋友的时候同样如此。我们一生中要面临诸多选择，要争取做一个受欢 迎的人，其实就是让自己的雪球在雪地上越滚越大，最好是一边前进一边选择积雪皑皑 的地方，因为我们不会回到山顶重新开始滚雪球，生活正是如此。