Learning from Marva Collins

Imagine yourself as a 10th grader. You received your mid-term exam results. You scored 10 out of 100 in Mathematics. Your math teacher calls you an idiot in front of everyone as you flunked the test. Your classmates make fun of you by calling you dumb. You go home unhappy and show the test results…

Learning From Benjamin Franklin

It is very important to have the right role models in life. It does not matter if they are living or dead. Sometimes it can be a fictional character like Sherlock Holmes. All that matters is to have one. Charlie Munger once told that I am a biography nut myself, and I think when you’re…

Learning From Darwin

Every time I read Seeking Wisdom I learn something new. This time I came across the paragraph given below which refers to the autobiography of Charles Darwin. From this paragraph we can learn a lot about Darwin’s thinking habits. There are five things that I learned which I marked it as [1]…[5]. I think that…

Learning from Jeff Bezos

Recently I finished reading the book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone. In spite of a 1 star review from Jeff Bezos wife, I enjoyed reading the book. There is a lot to learn from Jeff Bezos and in this post I have captured some them. 1. Regret Minimization Framework During…

Learning from Sherlock Holmes

Recently I read the book A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes. If you want to improve your thinking then you should read this book. In this book the author has distilled Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes into bite-sized principles and key quotes. I really enjoyed the book as it reminds me of the teachings of Charlie Munger. This…