In his own words · Inversion

“All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.”

— Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie's Almanack

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A favorite Munger formulation of inversion; he often presented it as a borrowed country-saying. It became the title of Peter Bevelin's 2016 book.

More Munger on Inversion

“Invert, always invert.”

Crediting the mathematician Carl Jacobi; Poor Charlie's Almanack

Munger repeatedly attributed the maxim to Jacobi.

“Darwin's result was due in large measure to his working method, which violated all my rules for misery and particularly emphasized a backward twist in that he always gave priority attention to evidence tending to disconfirm whatever cherished and hard-won theory he already had.”

Harvard School (Los Angeles) commencement address, "Prescriptions for Guaranteed Misery in Life," June 1986 (Poor Charlie's Almanack) · 1986 · where he said it ↗

Munger characterizing Darwin's habit of giving priority to disconfirming evidence — not a Darwin quote.

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