What I learned from reading All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense by Peter Bevelin.
For the last five years, I've been writing a memo to myself.
I have found this to be an excellent way to learn.
The memo is in the form of a discussion between four characters.
It's a story about a fictitious seeker and his visit to the library of wisdom, where he meets another fictitious character, the librarian, along with Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger.
What has been reinforced in writing this memo is the efficiency, simplicity, clarity, and common sense of judgment that are the hallmarks of buffet and Munger.
Both have a remarkable ability to eliminate folly, simplify things, boil down issues to their essence, get right to the point, and focus on simple and timeless truths.
They are the Einsteins of business and wisdom.
If there is one goal of this book, it is to better understand how they think.
That is from the very brief introduction of the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is all I want to know is where I'm going to die.
So I'll never go there.
Buffett and Munger, a study in simplicity and uncommon common sense.
And it was written by Peter Bevelen.
So I wasn't expecting to read this book right away.
It was actually recommended by my friend Eric Jorgensen.
Eric Jorgensen is also the author of the book that I covered on episode 199, which is the almanac of naval ravicant.
But anytime Eric recommends a book, I immediately order it.
This book came a few days later.
I pick it up, crack it open, trying to take a peek, see what the book was all about.
I start reading it and I never stopped.
And I think the reason it resonated with me immediately is because when you read the book, I feel it as if Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger are speaking directly to you.