Four principles for being miserable

Four prescriptions for being miserable from Charlie Munger [that you can instead invert]:

1. Be unreliable.

2. Learn everything you possibly can from your own personal experience, minimizing what you can learn from the good and bad experience of others, living and dead.

3. Go down and stay down when you get your first, second, and third severe reverse in the battle of life (i.e., if at first you do not succeed then do not try again).

4. Ignore evidence contrary to your opinion by remaining certain in your views.


http://www.thecrosshairstrader.com/2014/08/charles-t-munger-and-the-prescription-for-a-life-of-misery/

Patience and Compassion

The patience and compassion of Bhoo Devi (Mother Earth) is also praised by Thiruvalluvar.

Tirukkural 151: “Agazhvaarai Taangum nilam pOla tammai, Igazhvaarai poruttal talai”.

Meaning:

• When someone insults you or disrespects you, please be patient and do not take revenge.
• Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

I pray to God to always bless me with patience and compassion.

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