3-芒格在USC的演讲分析@2019.08.18.

@“让故事重新发生”@前几日偶拍@愚园路上的“生活者”@故事商店+街头智慧

最近“小欢喜”剧情进展的很热闹，说来说去，也是“教书育人”的故事，和芒格老爷子的这篇演讲稿异曲同工。周日，继续推进几点解析。

#7 Once you have the ideas of course they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice you lose it. So I went through life constantly practicing this model of disciplinary approach....it’s made life more fun, it’s made me more constructive, it’s made me more helpful to others, it’s made me enormously rich,...You will see the correct answer when he’s missed it.
解析：老爷子在这里循循善诱、再三强调 - “实践出真知”；人生的快乐、意义、于他们的价值，都在不断的当下的“实践中”；IDEAS，稍微想一想就足够了，千万别成主旋律。

#8 It wasn’t what I did I always obeyed the drift of my nature and if other people didn’t like it I didn’t need to be adored by everybody.
解析：老爷子的个性很棒，牛逼的人生何苦去“讨好”所有人；该来的“知己”，自会来。

#9 You have to learn these things in such a way that they’re in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life....you’ll be walking down the street and look to your right and left and think, “my heavenly days! I’m now one of the few most competent people of my whole age forward."
解析：LatticeWork，老爷子的格栅思想，后续我会根据他的几本著作，更详细的解析；此处，他特地强调了一下“格栅”的人生竞争力价值。推荐。

#10 The way complex adaptive systems work and the way mental constructs work; problems frequently get easier and I would even say usually are easier to solve if you turn around in reverse.......“what’s doing the worst damage in India? What would automatically do the worst damage and how do I avoid it?"
解析：complex adaptive systems("CAS")，即复杂自适应系统，一两句话说不透；此处老爷子想强调的是人、人生、思想、社会系统的随机波动性，也属于CAS的适用范畴；老爷子的建议是，面对人生挑战的“逆向思考”价值，用“极限”加“反向”的提问方式，直面问题的核心。

不二 - 即不执两端、取中庸之道；所思 - 多元、多角度；所行 - 多实践、自适应。

好了，今天就这样吧。继续打球，看着过会儿得下雨了，抓紧。

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Another idea that was hugely useful to me was that I listened in law school when some wag said, “A legal mind is a mind that when two things are all twisted up together and interacting, it's feasible to think responsibly about one thing and not the other." Well I could see from that one sentence that that was perfectly ridiculous, and it pushed me further into my natural drift, which was into learning all the big ideas and all the big disciplines. So I wouldn’t be a perfect damn fool who was trying to think about one aspect of something that couldn’t be removed from the totality of the situation in a constructive fashion.

And what I noted since the really big ideas carry 95% of the unclear, it wasn’t at all hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. #7 Once you have the ideas of course they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice you lose it. So I went through life constantly practicing this model of disciplinary approach. Well I can’t tell you what that’s done for me, it’s made life more fun, it’s made me more constructive, it’s made me more helpful to others, it’s made me enormously rich, you name it, that attitude really helps. Now there are dangers there, because it works so well, that if you do it, you will frequently find you are sitting in the presence of some other expert, maybe even an expert that’s superior to you, supervising you. And you will know more than he does about his own specialty, a lot more. You will see the correct answer when he’s missed it.

That is a very dangerous position to be in. You can cause enormous offense by helpfully being right in a way that causes somebody else to lose face. And I never found a perfect way to solve that problem. I was a great poker player when I was young but I wasn’t a good enough poker player so people failed to sense that I thought I knew more than they did about their subjects and it gave a lot of offense. Now I’m just regarded as eccentric but it was a difficult period to go through. And my advice to you is to learn sometimes to keep your light under a bushel.

One of my colleagues, also number one in his class in law school, a great success in life worked for the supreme court etc… He knew a lot and he tended to show it as a very young lawyer and one day the senior partner called him in and said, “listen Chuck, I want to explain something to you. Your duty under any circumstances is to behave in such a way that the client thinks he’s the smartest person in the world. If you have any little energy and insight available after that, use it to make your senior partner look like the smartest person in the world. And only after you’ve satisfied those two obligations do you want your light to shine at all”. Well, that may be very good advice for rising in a large firm. #8 It wasn’t what I did I always obeyed the drift of my nature and if other people didn’t like it I didn’t need to be adored by everybody.

Another idea, and by the way when I talk about this multidisciplinary attitude I’m really following a very key idea of the greatest lawyer of antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero is famous for saying, “a man who doesn’t know what happened before he was born goes through life like a child”. That is a very correct idea of Cicero’s. And he’s right to ridicule somebody so foolish as not to know what happened before he was born.

But if you generalize Cicero as I think one should, there are all these other things that you should know in addition to history and those other things are the big ideas in all the other disciplines. And it doesn’t help you just to know them enough just so you can unclear them back on an exam and get an A. #9 You have to learn these things in such a way that they’re in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. If you do that I solemnly promise you that one day you’ll be walking down the street and look to your right and left and think, “my heavenly days! I’m now one of the few most competent people of my whole age forward." If you don’t do it, many of the brightest of you will live in the middle ranks or in the shallows.

Another idea that I got, and it was encapsulated by that story the Dean recounted about the man who wanted to know where he was going to die and he wouldn’t go there, that rustic let that idea have a profound truth in his hand. #10 The way complex adaptive systems work and the way mental constructs work; problems frequently get easier and I would even say usually are easier to solve if you turn around in reverse. In other words if you want to help India, the question you should ask is not “how can I help India?”, you think “what’s doing the worst damage in India? What would automatically do the worst damage and how do I avoid it?"