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Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-investor and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charles Munger. A man whose simplicity and clarity of thought was unequal to anything Bevelin had seen. In addition to naturalist Charles Darwin and Munger, Bevelin cites an encyclopedic range of thinkers: from first-century BCE Roman poet Publius Terentius to Mark Twain—from Albert Einstein to Richard Feynman—from 16th Century French essayist Michel de Montaigne to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett. In the book, he describes ideas and research findings from many different fields. This book is for those who love the constant search for knowledge. It is in the spirit of Charles Munger, who says, "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." There are roads that lead to unhappiness. An understanding of how and why we can "die" should help us avoid them. We can't eliminate mistakes, but we can prevent those that can really hurt us. Using exemplars of clear thinking and attained wisdom, Bevelin focuses on how our thoughts are influenced, why we make misjudgments and tools to improve our thinking. Bevelin tackles such eternal questions as: Why do we behave like we do? What do we want out of life? What interferes with our goals? Read and study this wonderful multidisciplinary exploration of wisdom. It may change the way you think and act in business and in life.
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    January 1, 2007
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    English
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    9.61 x 6.3 x 1.22 inches
  8. Print length
    328 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ PCA Publications L.L.C.; 3rd edition (January 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Unknown Binding ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1578644283
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1578644285
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.61 x 6.3 x 1.22 inches
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Chris Davitt
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute gem…a gift to humanity.
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Similar to Charles P’s review below, I am almost ashamed it took me so long to discover this book. Page for page, it is one of the most densely insightful books I have ever read; and it’s essentially a distillation of wisdom and knowledge from some of history’s greatest minds into a single book. There’s a great quote by Johnny Uzan where he said, “A great book takes years to write but only hours to read. The reader nets the difference.” The net wisdom/knowledge benefit from this book makes it worth exponentially more than its purchase price, and I recommend it anytime anyone asks me the question, “What are your favorite books?” You will be a better and wiser person for having read this special book. Guaranteed.
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Charles P
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books i have ever read
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2024
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As an avid reader i am shocked it took so long for me to come across this book. Its packed with methods on how to be more rational and make better choices. I bought the authors other books as well.
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Manish
5.0 out of 5 stars Book that you would like to read again and again
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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This book is full of wisdom and it hard to digest all at one time. you need to go slow and let it process in your system and reread to get wiser.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good summary of ideas
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014
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I give this book 5 stars not because this is one of the best books I have read but because this is one of the best summary of ideas I ingested in last 2 years. I don't know how a casual reader with no prior exposure to topics covered in the book would ingest the densely packed material but if you are an ardent reader in topics such as decision science, finance and probability this book is nothing but a collection of ideas from these areas. If you have read 'Thinking, Fast and Slow', 50% of seeking wisdom would be redundant for you. If you have read 'The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives' another 25% of the material in the book would be redundant. If you have taken a Master's level course in finance & investing or have worked in financial markets, another 15% of the material would be redundant for you. In rare cases, if you have read books such as 'The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics' and 'The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty', whatever 10% stuff is left in the book would be repetitive. If you have read all the stuff mentioned above, this book is a good refresher of important concepts. If you haven't read the books mentioned above, this book may be nothing more than a text scratching the surface of tons of concepts. On that note, the book somehow is self contradictory where it talks about seeking wisdom but does exactly what prevents us from seeking it, i.e. shallow reading.
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Michal
4.0 out of 5 stars Poor Charlie's Alamanac
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2015
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This book is a review/summary of Nassim Taleb's works, Poor Charlie's Alamanac, Influence and a bunch of Warren Buffet. The source material is great and this does a good job of compiling it. However, there is very little new that it adds on it's own, and you are better of reading the source material. However, it does help reinforce the concepts of those great books so it was still quite a useful read. It also helps in terms of application of those concepts.
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Keith Garrick
5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Very Most Valuable - A Must Buy
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2013
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Although I write about "Life", it took a lot of convincing by the Farnam Street Blog to convince me to buy it at that price.

But it is worth far, far, far more than the relatively miniscule price - and it is worth reading many times.

And it is worth implementing into your life - for what value is reading other than to create value itself! The value that can be derived from this book will, in my opinion, be beyond that of at least most of the books you've read - combined.

It has so much great content that I made a page on my key website (in the search engine next week) so that I could derive all the value out of it for myself, and hopefully help a few others along the way (which is the purpose of the site).

And, yes, it has some rather deep and analytical parts to it that take some concentration and attention. Those might be skipped on the initial reading, but I would recommend going back and reading them - and converting them (if they seem to be about investing or other seeming "non-life" topics) into truths about life.

Buy it. Read it. You will never regret buying it.

And you'll be able to get so much out of it for your own life, along with the great value you will undoubtedly give to others from how you live your life and what you share.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Holy moly!
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023
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Top 10 of all time.
I have not read many books more than once. But this one will be read over and over just for the enjoyment. You will not be disappointed or my name is Shirley.
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Manav M. Choksi
5.0 out of 5 stars A gem of a book!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2015
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As Charlie Munger (Partner to Warren Buffett & Vice Chairman – Berkshire Hathaway) says ‘All I want to know is where I am going to die, so I’ll never go there’. This book ‘Seeking Wisdom’ is in search of this wisdom. Peter Bevelin has written a mind blowing book on how to avoid the roads that lead to unhappiness. At its core this book focuses on why we make misjudgements and how we can avoid them by thinking better and more importantly rationally.

Peter Bevelin has read extensively on variety of disciplines and this book is a culmination of what he has learned all these years by reading the best minds. The book is so rich that it should be included in the school curricula. What a head start it would be for a teenager to learn all these wisdom!! The bibliography is very rich as well.

Do yourself a favour; read this book and have everyone in your family read it as well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Muy buen libro
Reviewed in Mexico on April 13, 2023
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Kumar
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read.
Reviewed in India on May 19, 2024
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Fresh and indepth. Unique. It must be read every year. I had bought after advice by Gautam baid in his one interview with face2face. Thanks gautam baid.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read.
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Fresh and indepth. Unique. It must be read every year. I had bought after advice by Gautam baid in his one interview with face2face. Thanks gautam baid.
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Mohamed
1.0 out of 5 stars Sans intérêt
Reviewed in France on November 17, 2019
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Ceci n’est pas vraiment un livre, mais une compilation de citations de M. Buffet et M. Munger avec des commentaires ...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
Reviewed in Spain on March 13, 2019
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Brillante recopilación de conceptos con aportaciones de frases por parte de munger y Buffett.
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Laci
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality information, but a bit short
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2019
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The theme of the book is making decisions. Why people make mistakes and how to make better decisions and more accurate predictions. Most examples are investment related.

It appears to be a good overview on decision making. That is pretty much all of the sections are both true and insightful. However it could have been organised a bit better, some sections could be next to each other or under the same heading, also some content seems to be in the wrong section. It appears the author focused only on ideas he knows to be useful and he understands. (Meaning the contents are true, but incomplete)

The problem with the book is that it's too short. It seems each section is just quickly describing an idea with 0 - 2 examples before the next one starts. The problem is, that with so few examples and quick description, you will not understand the concepts if they are new to you and you can't find more real life examples yourself. It is exacerbated by the large number of quotes used (which take up much of the space). I think it should be 2-3x longer to better explain each concept.
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