Thread by @NeckarValue

"new investors typically uncritically adopt heroes and gurus... with more experience ... imperfections appear. They have increasingly long lists of who they dislike. But pointing out faults is trivially easy."
@tom_morganKCP
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"The problem is that we have a tendency to repress everything from the prior stage as we move to the next one.

The more different perspectives you transcend and include, the more easily you can identify the universal themes and ideas that appear across wisdom traditions."

"I tend to get very excited whenever I find a new thinker or guru. “This is the person who finally has the answer!” I worship the guru, not their insights. Then when my heroes inevitably turn out to have feet of clay, I tend to throw out their entire body of work."

"the most impressive people usually have long lists of influences. But they can usually precisely articulate what they have integrated and discarded from that person. ... Munger himself advocates taking in “the best big ideas from all disciplines."

"First you follow your unique interests, then you use a sense of resonance to determine which ideas to incorporate into your style. As both your interests and the resonance are unique to you, the result should be a perpetually unfolding process of personal growth."

"One of Carl Jung’s crucial insights was that if we set our goals based only on what we knew today, we’ll just constantly recreate the present. We will reject any unexpected opportunities that intrude into that linear vision and close off the unfolding spiral of our lives."