Seeking Wisdom
内容简介
Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-investor and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charles Munger. A man whose simplicity and clarity of thought was unequal to anything Bevelin had seen.
In addition to naturalist Charles Darwin and Munger, Bevelin cites an encyclopedic range of thinkers: from first-century BCE Roman poet Publius Terentius to Mark Twain—from Albert Einstein to Richard Feynman—from 16th Century French essayist Michel de Montaigne to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett. In the book, he describes ideas and research findings from many different fields.
This book is for those who love the constant search for knowledge. It is in the spirit of Charles Munger, who says, "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." There are roads that lead to unhappiness. An understanding of how and why we can "die" should help us avoid them. We can't eliminate mistakes, but we can prevent those that can really hurt us.
Using exemplars of clear thinking and attained wisdom, Bevelin focuses on how our thoughts are influenced, why we make misjudgments and tools to improve our thinking. Bevelin tackles such eternal questions as: Why do we behave like we do? What do we want out of life? What interferes with our goals?
Read and study this wonderful multidisciplinary exploration of wisdom. It may change the way you think and act in business and in life.
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作者简介
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目录
致 谢................................................... 7.
前 言................................................... 9
第一章 谁动了我的“思维”？
第一节 人体解剖结构限制了我们的行为................. 16
第二节 进化偏爱于那些能提高生存和繁衍机会的
神经连接....................................... 29
第三节 生存和繁衍的适应性行为....................... 44
第二章 误判心理学
第一节 从心理学角度解释误判.......................... 70
第二节 导致错误的心理原因............................ 75
第三章 误判物理学和误判数学
第一节 系统思考...................................... 199
第二节 尺寸和极限.................................... 213
第三节 原因.......................................... 222
第四节 数字和意义.................................... 232
第五节 概率和可能性结果............................. 236
第六节 方案.......................................... 257
第七节 巧合和奇迹.................................... 268
第八节 例证的信度.................................... 275
第九节 非典型性证据................................. 285
第四章 思维能力训练指南
第一节 基于现实的模型............................... 303
第二节 意义.......................................... 317
第三节 简化.......................................... 336
第四节 规则和过滤器................................. 346
第五节 目标.......................................... 354
第六节 多项选择...................................... 357
第七节 结果.......................................... 361
第八节 量化.......................................... 365
第九节 证据.......................................... 376
第十节 逆向思维...................................... 385
第十一节 风险........................................ 391
第十二节 态度........................................ 397
附录
附录 1 哈佛高中毕业典礼演讲
查理·芒格............................................. 408
附录 2 来自于查理·芒格和沃伦·巴菲特的智慧...... 416
附录 3 概率.......................................... 444
附录 4 清单.......................................... 462
后记
张志雄....................................................482
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读书文摘
This means that humans have spent more than 99% of their evolutionary history in the hunter gatherer environment.
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