🗣️Burkina Faso Devlet Başkanı Yüzbaşı İbrahim Traoré:
Bir gün, Batılı bir ülkenin gizli servisinden yetkililer bizi görmeye geldi. Bize, teröristlerin bulunduğu bölgelere gönderilecek yiyeceklerin içine katılması için dört farklı ürün teklif ettiler.
Bu ürünlerin her şeye katılabileceğini belirttiler; bira veya şekerli içecekler, sigara, pirinç, süt... Kısacası her şeyin içine konulabiliyor.
Ürünlerin etkilerini şu şekilde anlattılar:
Beyni tahrip eden ürün:
Amacı beyni öldürmek. Yani kişinin düşünmesini engelliyor. Nöronlarınızı yavaş yavaş kapatıyor ve sizi adeta aptallaştırıyor. Birkaç yıl içinde düşünme ve iş yapma kapasiteniz tamamen azalıyor.
Fiziksel kapasiteyi düşüren ürün:
Bu ürün fiziksel dayanıklılığı hedef alıyor. Eğer bir kişi 12 kilometre koşabiliyorsa, birkaç yıl sonra bu oran belki 6 kilometreye, 4 kilometreye düşüyor; kişi giderek zayıflıyor.
Uyku hali yapan ürün:
Sürekli uyku durumuna neden oluyor. Bunun vücutta tam olarak neyi etkilediğini ve nasıl çalıştığını doktorlar daha iyi bilir.
Onları dikkatle dinledik ve ardından ürünlerin isimlerini sorduk. Bize isimlerini vermediler ve kalkıp gittiler.
Ancak gitmeden önce onlara şunu sorduk: 'Bunu daha önce bir yerde test ettiniz mi? Gerçekten işe yarıyor mu? Aksi takdirde neden buna para ödeyip böyle bir işe girelim?' Çünkü bize bu teklifi getirmelerindeki amaç, teröristlerin olduğu bölgelerdeki bireylerin zamanla zayıflaması ve birkaç yıl içinde tarafımızca kolayca ezilebilecek hale gelmesiydi.
Bize verdikleri yanıt; 'Evet, bunu daha önce Afrika'da bir yerlerde ve Asya'da da kullandık' oldu. Bunu daha önce defalarca kullanmışlar.
Biliyor musunuz, kanımı donduran şey ne oldu? Kendi kendime, 'Evet, Afrika'nın işi bitmiş' dedim. Çünkü aslında bunu halihazırda Afrika'da kullanıyorlar.
🇧🇫 ☪️ "Some of our people are learning Sharia law in Arab countries. A lot of them are attracted to it because of the money — and only because of the money. When they come back, and they want to apply Sharia law. And, as a result, we'll be killing each other. I don't want to allow this.Imams shouldn't educate our young people in Islam."
— interim President of Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré against any form of Islamic rule & legislation
Says also that Burkinabé students have to return from Arab countries back home ASAP, adding that "the ones who won't return are no longer part of Burkina Faso"
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.
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