My favorite Charlie Munger story:
In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.
Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.
His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.
The leukemia was incurable.
No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.
Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.
Teddy died at the age of 9.
Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.
99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)
Munger never did.
Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.
Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.
When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:
"It's time for me to learn braille!"
The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.
RIP.
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Munger on Self-Pity:
"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.
Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…
Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.
Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.
There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."
BREAKING: In Trump’s first sit-down interview with FOX News since he got indicted, FOX host Bret Baier brutally calls out Trump on his indictment lies and repeatedly fact checks him in real time live on the air, leaving Trump flustered.
The confrontation started when Trump declared that the top secret documents were his — and that the “only way” that National Archives could have gotten the documents back to should have been to ask nicely, “Please, please, please, could we have them back?”
FOX Host Baier immediately cut him off, telling Trump, “They DID ask for them.”
Flummoxed, Trump responded, “Because they have no — we were talking.”
Luckily, Bauer didn’t let Trump get away with such a dumb response, because he again pressed Trump in front of millions of FOX viewers, telling him, “The National Archives went to the Department of Justice and got a subpoena to get the documents!”
Trump’s response is one for the ages, exclaiming, “Which they have never done before!”
Bauer responded, “That’s right!
Bauer continued, asking Trump, “Why didn’t you just hand them over then?
Trump responded, “Because I had boxes, I want to go through the boxes and get all of my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to the national archives yet, and I was very busy as you’ve sort of seen.
Thankfully, FOX News host Bauer didn’t let Trump get away with that one, setting Trump straight by responding, “Yeah, but according to the indictment, you then tell this aide to move the documents to other locations after telling your lawyers to say you’d fully complied with the subpoena when you hadn’t.”
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@abbicados You are wrong to cite me. I speak from experience. Being negative does not speed up your healing. If anything, it prolongs it. Wallow and have your pity party. It simply has no benefit. #done!