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[Corporate Machiavelli @Mach_Tactics]

If you cheat and win, the world will reward you.

If you play fair and you lose, the world will destroy you.

Rules are for fools.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Don't try to control outcomes directly. Don't push, argue, explain. The smarter move is to control conditions. Set the structure so the outcome you want becomes the easiest path. People follow convenience more than instruction.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Humans demand fairness only when they’re losing. When advantage is on their side, they call it merit. When it shifts away, they call it injustice. Human nature bends morality around incentive; the wise study incentives first and ethics second.

[Eminent_minds @minds_eminent]

THE OLDER YOU GET, THE MORE YOU NEED TO :

1. Not be fat

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

You think clarity will fix everything. It won’t. Clarity only exposes what you’re avoiding. Once things are clear, action becomes necessary. That’s why many people prefer confusion; it delays responsibility while creating the illusion of progress.

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

without urgency, years slip by like days. with extreme urgency, days stretch into years. urgency is the most underrated & most important force in making something of your life.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The real reason you feel disrespected is not because others are stronger. It’s because your behavior signals that you will tolerate it. Humans constantly test for boundaries, not out of malice, but to understand the structure. If nothing pushes back, the line moves. Respect is not granted. It is calibrated.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Charlie Munger literally explained how "Inversion Thinking" helped him become a billionaire:

1. He solves every problem backwards. Munger calls it inversion, and he uses it constantly. Most people ask how do I succeed at this. He asks the opposite: what would guarantee failure here, and then he simply avoids that. He says it works like algebra. Some problems you cannot solve forwards, but invert them and the answer falls out easily.

2. As a young weather forecaster, he asked how he could kill pilots. Stationed in the Air Corps ferry command, drawing weather maps alone in a hangar at night, he didn't ask how to forecast well. He asked: how would I most easily kill these pilots? He worked it through in reverse and found only two answers. Send them into icing their plane couldn't handle, or send them somewhere they'd run out of fuel before any airport was clear. He became fanatical about avoiding exactly those two things.

3. He points out that inversion could have saved Kobe Bryant. The two ways he found to kill a pilot, icing and getting caught out with nowhere to land, are flight risks a disciplined person simply refuses to take. If someone around Kobe had thought that way, Munger says, he'd still be here. It was so stupid, in his words, to die that way. The whole point of inversion is that the fatal error is usually obvious once you go looking for it on purpose.

4. His grandfather taught him the same trick as a boy. When Munger went swimming, his grandfather told him to swim as long as he wanted, but stay near the shore. It sounds simple enough to laugh at, but it's inversion in one sentence: don't optimize for the best swim, eliminate the way you drown. Munger insists the man was genuinely wise.

5. The military gave him a second trick: bracketing. In ROTC he was taught to fire mortar shells one long, one short, then correct to land the next one on target. He says he never fired a real shell in his life, but he has used that bracketing method to size decisions ever since. When he needs to know how big or small to make something, he brackets it high and low and closes in. Kapow.

6. His best inversion turned $125,000 into $600,000. As a young lawyer he had a client whose ranch land the Edison Company wanted an easement through. The client's famous, pompous appraiser valued it at $125,000, using the standard two-dimensional method: comparable sales, price per acre, acreage. Munger, who wasn't even an appraiser, saw the flaw. The land was hilly.

7. He forced the problem into three dimensions and the answer changed completely. Hilly land gets developed by lopping off the tops of hills and filling the valleys. The transmission towers would freeze the grade and make that impossible, doing enormous damage the flat, two-dimensional appraisal never captured. The old appraiser refused to change a thing, so Munger told his client to fire the twit, hired one who could think in three dimensions, and got $600,000 out of honest engineers who also thought that way.

8. The more due diligence someone does, the weaker a thinker they usually are. This is his sharpest line. Munger says endless analysis is often just a way of soothing an inner insecurity, and it doesn't actually work. The genuinely capable thinkers understand a situation fast and act. The armies of young lawyers billing by the hour to comb through every purchase order are, more often than not, papering over the fact that they can't see the answer.

9. You don't need certainty. You need to be about 96% sure. Munger is blunt that waiting for 100% is a mistake, because in most cases 96% is all you're ever entitled to, and the rest is wasted motion. The skill is knowing when you already have enough to act, and having the nerve to move on it.

10. He and Buffett closed a multibillion-dollar oil deal in about two days. When Occidental needed money fast to buy Anadarko, Munger didn't fly anywhere or run endless analytics. He and Buffett talked by phone, and after decades together, he says, one grunt speaks a volume. It was obvious: the Permian Basin is America's best oil, layer after layer with nothing comparable, and they'd get an 8% preferred dividend from a reputable operator plus upside. A no-brainer, he says, as long as you don't insist on making it hard.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Be so naturally good. Be so fucking competent. Be so exceptional in every domain of human performance that people have no option than to admire you, envy you or be magnetically attracted to you.

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

Half of male depression is solved by getting in shape. The other half is solved by having a mission.

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“You climb as hard as you can by just advancing one inch at a time. That's the secret of life.”

— Charlie Munger

[veles @velesxbt]

A Stanford mathematician who spent 10 years as a professional magician just described the market in one sentence:

"I've spent my life on two tricks: making a rigged deck look random, and making a random one look rigged. The market is the first trick, and almost nobody catches it."

That's Persi Diaconis. He has a free lecture that asks one question: does anything actually happen at random? The answer is: far less than you think.

The market is his first trick in the wild. It looks like pure chance. Buried inside is a faint rig, a 50.75% tilt no eye can see. Your gut reads a losing week as a broken system and a hot streak as skill. Wrong both times. The tilt is invisible to human intuition, which is exactly why funds hand the decision to the math.

None of it is hidden. Diaconis has taught it for decades. The probability goes back to 1713. The lecture is free.

Here's the trap: you feel every win and every loss, but you cannot feel the average. And the average is the only thing that pays. It takes thousands of trades for a 51% edge to separate from luck, and almost everyone quits long before then.

The math is free. The patience to trust it past your own eyes is the edge.

[د. عبدالرحمن @c1li9]

هذا أشهر طبيب مناعة في العالم..!

عاش 108 سنة ، ولما سُئل عن سر طول عمره قال إن السبب
مو الأكل ، ولا النظام الصحي ولا حتى قلة التوتر.

ولما سألوه عن سر طول العمر، رد بكلمه وحده..

[Mind and Glory 🎖 @mindandglory]

A real man never mistakes movement for progress. Being busy is not the same as being deliberate. He measures output, not effort.

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Bruce Lee said it right:

“The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks, and observes.”

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

"Brilliance is the ability to simplify a mass amount of information into a simple yes/no decision."

— Warren Buffett

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Never outshine people who have the authority to punish your brilliance. Talent without political sense becomes a threat, and threats get managed. Let insecure people feel taller while you build quietly. The goal is not to look superior in the moment. The goal is to keep rising.

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

Warren Buffett: “If you can detach yourself, temperamentally, from the crowd, you'll get very rich. You don't have to be very bright [either].”

“It doesn't take brains. It takes temperament.”

[R @AlphaWizarDD]

They ask Warren Buffett in an interview:

"What is true wealth"?

Warren Buffet: "True wealth is not having the biggest house or the most expensive car.

It is having enough money to live comfortably while being free to choose how you spend your time, who you work with, and the life you want to live.

In the end, time and freedom are the greatest forms of wealth".

(Charlie Rose, 2009)