Seeking Wisdom

Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius's maxim: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." — Confucius

Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others and partly from the philosophy of super-investor and Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charles Munger, a man whose simplicity and clarity of thought was unequal to anything Bevelin had seen.

In addition to naturalist Charles Darwin and Munger, Bevelin cites an encyclopedic range of figures, from first-century BCE Roman poet Publius Terentius to Mark Twain, from Albert Einstein to Richard Feynman, from 16th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne to Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett. In the book, he describes ideas and research findings from many different fields.

This book is for those who love the constant search for knowledge. Using exemplars of clear thinking and attained wisdom, Bevelin focuses on how our thoughts are influenced, why we make misjudgments, and what tools can improve our thinking.

Bevelin tackles such eternal questions: Why do we behave like we do? What do we want out of life? What interferes with our goals?

It is in the spirit of Charles Munger: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." — Charles Munger

Read and study this multidisciplinary exploration of wisdom. It may change the way you think and act in business and in life.