Dangerous Human Behaviors Part II

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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I share my thoughts on some of the mental models from Charlie Munger’s book, Poor Charlie’s Almanack, as analyzed by Marc Andreesan, co-founder of one of the most successful VCs in the world. As mentioned in this ep, you may want to check out a previous Founder’s Journal episode Two Dangerous Human Behaviors Check out full episode transcripts at https://foundersjournal.morningbrew.com to learn more, and if you have any ideas for our show, email me at [email protected] or my DMs are open @businessbarista. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone this is Alex Lieberman co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew welcome back to Founder's journal
0:07.4	My personal audio diary where I give you the business builder the tools you need to think better in order to build better
0:14.9	Whether that's building a business a team or a new product today. I am talking about two dangerous behaviors every founder must be aware of let's hop into it
0:25.7	Okay, Founder's journal listeners. Let's just set the stage quickly
0:33.0	This episode is a follow-up to last week's popular episode on dangerous behaviors
0:38.6	For context, I have been reading the writings of a lot of venture capitalist recently
0:43.0	but specifically Mark Andrewsson who is a serial entrepreneur and
0:46.4	Arguably one of the most successful venture capitalists of all time and in one of the essays of his
0:52.9	Mark breaks down a few mental models that were originally talked about by Charlie Munger
0:58.6	Charlie Munger is Warren Buffett's right-hand man
1:01.3	He's been with him for decades and he's an incredible untrained behavioral scientist on top of just being
1:08.7	Obviously an all-time value investor. So you should definitely go back after this episode and listen to the first two
1:15.9	Dangerous human behaviors that I covered and how they impact career as well startups
1:20.9	But I want to hop into the next two here and what we're going to start with is something that Charlie Munger calls the
1:27.8	Disliking or heating tendency
1:30.3	very simply we compare and our jealous creatures and what Charlie Munger says is that we are born to dislike and hate and
1:38.8	It's why history shows over and over examples of war now
1:43.5	You can look at examples of dislike and hate and comparison at all levels at the family level
1:48.0	We often see one sibling hating another sibling at the education level
1:52.9	We hate the student that sits in the front of the class or can get straight A's just by cramming in information the night before and
2:00.1	At the professional level we hate the person at work who just feels like they are always a little bit better than you no matter
2:07.1	How hard you try?
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