Seeking Wisdom

1， I’m superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.

2， I think it’s huge mistake not to absorb elementary worldly wisdom if you’re capable of doing it because it makes you better able to serve others, it makes you better able to serve yourself and it makes life more fun…I’m passionate about wisdom.

3， Do our genes have a life of their own?

No, genes expression depends on environmental conditions.

4， Neural connections are shaped by life experiences.

5， Behavior is influenced by our state of mind

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

6， What drives us?

We are driven by our need to avoid pain (and punishment) and a desire to gain pleasure (and reward)

7， The study also showed that a man felt most jealous when his woman was having sex with someone else, A woman felt most jealous when her man became emotionally attached to someone else.

8， Warren Buffett gives us some introductory remarks on why even smart people get bad results.

It’s ego. It’s greed. It’s fear. It’s mindless imitation of other people.

I would day if Charlie and I have any advantage it’s not because we are so smart, it is because we are rational and we very seldom let extraneous factors interfere with our thoughts. We don’t let other people’s opinion interfere with it. we try to get fearful when others are greedy. We try to get greedy when others are fearful.

I always look at IQ and talent as representing the horsepower of the motor, but then in terms of the output, the efficiency with which the motor works, depends on rationality. That’s because a lot of people start our with 400-horsepower motor and get a hundred horsepower of output. It’s way better to have a 200-horsepower motor and get it all into output. So why do smart people do things that interfere with getting the output they’re entitled to? It gets into the habits, and character and temperament（气质）, and it really gets into having in a rational manner.

Financial historian Charles P. Kindleberger says in <Manias, Panics, and Crashes>: "There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich."

Joph Stalin said: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"

Man will do many things tog et himself loved;

he will do all things to get himself envied.

-Mark Twain