Money and Finance
- Studying The Endgame
I think there's a good analogy to be made between the excerpted paragraphs below, from The Art of Learning, and investing. The opening variations in chess are like short-term results and the time spent looking at everything that looks cheap on...
- Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! - By Miguel Barbosa
Your must-read of the day: Link to: Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! I think that understanding how to learn about mental models remains (unexplored and unpopular). In other words, the journey that every aspiring renaissance thinker...
- Charlie Munger On Continuous Learning
From my notes on his 2007 USC Law School Commencement Speech:Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. As a corollary to that proposition which is very important, it means that you are hooked for lifetime...
- Li Lu On Understanding A Business…
Via notes from his 2010 lecture at Columbia:You can’t truly understand everything about a business in 1 week. It took me 10 years and I am still learning new things about BYD. It is a continuous learning process. You could spend a lifetime studying...
- Daniel Pink Talks To Malcolm Gladwell
Link to: Daniel Pink talks to Malcolm Gladwell ………………. Related book: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Related previous posts: TED Talk - Malcolm Gladwell: The unheard story of David and Goliath Imagine...
Money and Finance
Opening Keynote Malcolm Gladwell Draws Capacity Crowd
When it comes to learning," Gladwell said, "what you get is a simple function of what you put in. That is the beautiful and powerful idea behind learning... Sometimes the struggle to learn something is where the actual learning lies."
He also contrasted two learning strategies: capitalization, or leveraging your strengths; and compensation, or focusing your effort on weaknesses. Gladwell contends we spend too much time capitalizing when we'd find much more success by compensating.
- Studying The Endgame
I think there's a good analogy to be made between the excerpted paragraphs below, from The Art of Learning, and investing. The opening variations in chess are like short-term results and the time spent looking at everything that looks cheap on...
- Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! - By Miguel Barbosa
Your must-read of the day: Link to: Love Mental Models? Study Threshold Concepts! I think that understanding how to learn about mental models remains (unexplored and unpopular). In other words, the journey that every aspiring renaissance thinker...
- Charlie Munger On Continuous Learning
From my notes on his 2007 USC Law School Commencement Speech:Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. As a corollary to that proposition which is very important, it means that you are hooked for lifetime...
- Li Lu On Understanding A Business…
Via notes from his 2010 lecture at Columbia:You can’t truly understand everything about a business in 1 week. It took me 10 years and I am still learning new things about BYD. It is a continuous learning process. You could spend a lifetime studying...
- Daniel Pink Talks To Malcolm Gladwell
Link to: Daniel Pink talks to Malcolm Gladwell ………………. Related book: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Related previous posts: TED Talk - Malcolm Gladwell: The unheard story of David and Goliath Imagine...