Munger's Psychology of Human Misjudgment

Published on June 26, 2017

I’m a huge Charlie Munger fan. I spent the weekend stewing on a few things, including why human beings do what they do.

Andrew Wilkinson sent me this animated and abridged video of a famous Charlie Munger speech called The Psychology of Human Misjudgment. It’s well worth a quiet 15 minutes of your day to sit and watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-fe01CA3vc

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