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Inversion: The Power of Avoiding Stupidity

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Inversion is a powerful mental model to improve your thinking because it helps you identify and remove obstacles to success. Most of us tend to think one way about a problem: forward. Inversion allows us to flip the problem around and think backward.

Mental Models | Reading Time: 2 minutes Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity Charlie Munger , the business partner of Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is famous for his quote “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” That thinking was inspired by the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, famous for some work on elliptic functions that I’ll never understand. Jacobi often solved difficult problems by following a simple strategy: “ man muss immer umkehren” (or loosely translated, “invert, al

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