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Jun 2024
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TIP640: Investing: The Last Liberal Art ...

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About this episode

On today’s episode, Clay and Kyle dive into Robert Hagstrom’s book — Investing: The Last Liberal Art. Charlie Munger is famous for popularizing the use of mental models and pulling key ideas from related fields and implementing them to the world of investing. In today’s episode, that’s exactly what we do, starting with the fields of physics, biology, sociology, and psychology.


IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

01:27 - How learning new mental models can help us be better investors.

10:49 - Concepts in physics that we can carry over to investing.

25:35 - Lessons we can learn from evolution and complex adaptive systems.

42:00 - What leads to a stock oscillating above and below the intrinsic value.

54:15 - The primary psychological biases as lead to investment mistakes.

01:05:43 - Why Lumine’s incentive structure is a structure worth studying.

And so much more!


Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.


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  • Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members.
  • Buy Investing: The Last Liberal Art here.
  • Read Seeking Winners blog here.
  • Buy What I Learned about Investing from Darwin here.
  • Buy The Uncertainty Solution here.
  • Learn more about Charlie Munger’s speech here.
  • Learn more about Mental Models here.
  • Read Li Lu’s write-up on value investing in China here.
  • Buy Poor Charlie’s Almanck here.
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