What is your Charlie Munger story?

Let me take you back to 2015...

Greetings from New York City,

My Instagram page CharlieMungerQuotes has over 106,000 followers. It has become one of the most common ways for people between the ages of 18-24 to discover Charlie Munger.

Mission accomplished.

(Please see the “P.S.” of this letter to learn why I say this.)

Finding Charlie Munger

This made me think back to how I first discovered Charlie Munger.

The year was 2015. I was 27. I had a full head of hair (kidding).

I know this because in my Notes app, I saved an email addressed to one of my best friends, Phil Leathers.

(Phil has no idea I am mentioning him in this post, let alone linking to his LinkedIn profile.)

Here’s what I wrote Phil back in 2015:

Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:37 AM

Phil,

As promised, here's some wisdom via Charlie Munger:

This is a good collection of his best quotes: http://25iq.com/quotations/charlie-munger/

I read the 2015 Berkshire interview the other day. Tons of gems in it from both Munger and Buffet: http://gongol.com/research/berkshire/2015/

Also, here is the blog I think you will get a lot from. This is where I learned about Charlie Munger, too. https://www.farnamstreetblog.com

Here are some good Charlie Munger posts from Farnam that will get you started: 

• https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/a-lesson-on-worldly-wisdom/

• https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/09/munger-worldly-wisdom/

• https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/

Enjoy, and let's keep sharing stuff like this. 

-CF

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Question for you: When/how did you first discover Charlie Munger? Did you learn anything from him that you immediately applied? What have you learned from Charlie Munger that had the most impact on your life, personally and/or professionally?

Hit ‘Reply’ to let me know. I will read what you send.

Talk soon,

CF

P.S. My #1 reason for creating the Instagram page was to help younger people discover Charlie Munger’s wisdom because it had been so helpful to me. See below.

This is a screenshot of what I wrote to myself in April 2020.

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