by Charlie Munger
Munger presents mental models from multiple disciplines, psychology, economics, physics, as tools for better decisions. Real-world problems demand multidisciplinary thinking, not narrow expertise.
In this collection, Poor Charlie's Almanack references 2 other books and is cited by 4 other books.
It draws on Influence and The Selfish Gene.
It’s picked up by The Psychology of Money, The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor and Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side and 1 others.
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Munger considers Influence one of the most important books ever written on human psychology. He recommends it in his famous "mental models" framework as essential for understanding misjudgement.
Munger references The Selfish Gene as foundational to his understanding of evolutionary psychology, which he considers essential for sound investment thinking.
The exact passages where other authors bring up “Poor Charlie's Almanack” and what they take from it.
Housel references Munger's mental models from Poor Charlie's Almanack.
Marks explicitly aligns himself with the Buffett-Munger value-investing tradition chronicled in Poor Charlie's Almanack, citing Munger's aphorisms on market psychology throughout
Marks repeatedly invokes Buffett and Munger's counter-cyclical maxims from Poor Charlie's Almanack, especially 'be fearful when others are greedy'
Mauboussin builds explicitly on the Munger 'latticework of mental models' approach from Poor Charlie's Almanack, arguing investors must borrow frameworks from physics, biology, and psychology
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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Placesby Michael J. Mauboussin
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