“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads — and how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
That comment is what really kickstarted my own reading habits. While my 161 books last year pales in comparison to the quality of Munger’s reading habits, it’s a start.
Munger, of course, is the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett and the Vice Chairman at Berkshire Hathaway.
Not only is Munger one of the smartest people on the planet — his lecture on the psychology of human misjudgment is the best 45 minutes you might spend this year — but he’s put all of those brains to use in a practical way.
If you’re looking for a book to read this summer, this list of books recommended by Munger is a great place to start.
1. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
2. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
3. Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
4. Ice Age
5. How the Scots Invented the Modern World
6. Models of My Life
7. A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
8. Andrew Carnegie
9. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
10. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
11. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
12. Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
13. The Selfish Gene
14. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
15. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
16. The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy
17. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
18. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
19. Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
20. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
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