I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities. - Charlie Munger

In my life, I avoid things that are stupid, evil, or make me look bad in comparison with someone else.

Some of the worst dysfunctions in businesses come from the fact that they balkanize reality into little individual departments, with territoriality and turf protection and so forth. So if you want to be a good thinker, you must develop a mind that can jump the jurisdictional boundaries. You don’t have to know it all. Just take in the best big ideas from all these disciplines. And it’s not that hard to do.

Demosthenes noted, “What a man wishes, he will believe.” And