“I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.” – Charlie Munger
“I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking” – Lord Peter Wimsey
Related:
- 1-2g2j3 Life itself is iconic (imitation-copying)
- 2-1b2b ‘Second-order thinking’ - Solve the root cause of a problem (prevention) and not symptoms. Be smart-lazy.
- 4-1a4b2b1 ‘One-of-those’ over one-off - Learn from history (not just from your ‘own’ experience)
- 9-1b0a When you have learned something, the way it exists in your mind is the same as the way it exists in the mind of the inventor