Poor Charlie's Almanack_ The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

I first heard of this book in 2006

And I think when you're trying to teach the great concepts that work, it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who developed them. I think you learn economics better if you make Adam Smith your friend. That sounds funny, making friends among 'the eminent dead,'but if you go through life making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas, I think it will work better for you in life and work better in education. It's way better than just giving the basic concepts."

we must start at the beginning

"The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing." - Benjamin Franklin

everything he bumps into in life

he knows that repetition is the heart of instruction.

Charlie simply opens up and tells it like it is

Charlie then offers us

the traditional role of

learning from the mistakes of others