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Oct 1, 2026 · Fundamentals

Charlie Munger's Mental Models: Inversion, Rationality, and Lowering Expectations

A reflection on Charlie Munger's core principles — lowering expectations to match reality, using inversion thinking to avoid fatal errors, pursuing rationality as a moral habit, and leading by example — drawn from his speeches on happiness, parenting, investing, and decision-making.