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Charlie Munger, the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett, frequently tells the story below to illustrate how to distinguish between the two types of knowledge: real knowledge and pretend …
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades we were convinced that …
This passage is from Ryan Holiday in Trust Me, I’m Lying: Once the mind has accepted a plausible explanation for something, it becomes a framework for all the information that is perceived after …