✋If you want to avoid costly mistakes

Do THIS | Wisdom Letter #275

…Invert, always invert!

Inversion: Mental Model

You want to be right more times in life?

Then try to be wrong less times.

Avoid the things that can go wrong instead of fixating only on the things that can go right.

So instead of wondering what can make you fitter, think about what makes you unfit, and actively avoid that.

• ❌ Try to be Fit

• ✅ Avoid things that make you unfit - unhealthy food, bad lifestyle, etc.

• ❌ Try to be Rich

• ✅ Avoid things that make you poor - poor savings rate, no investments, etc.

• ❌ Try to be Happy

• ✅ Avoid things that make you sad - poor relationships, no meaning in your work etc.

James clear has a good essay on this.

Here’s how the late Charlie Munger explains it -

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

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