Go positive and go first and be constant in doing it. There may be no better formula for

living the best life you could possibly live. That's a quote from Peter Kaufman and that's what

we're going to talk about today. Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parrish.

This podcast is all about learning from others, mastering the best of what they've figured out so you can use their lessons in your life.

Peter Kaufman is someone you probably never heard of, and that's by design. He's the chairman and

CEO of Glen Eyre, an aerospace company that he's led since 1977.

Over that tenure, he's compiled one of the best track records in business history.

Peter's also the editor of poor Charlie's Almanac, the definitive collection of Charlie Munger's

wisdom. He was one of Charlie's closest friends for decades. Peter is also a personal friend.

I've learned more from him in the past

decade than nearly anyone else in my life. Despite all of his wisdom, Peter rarely gives public talks or

interviews. He prefers it that way. One of his favorite sayings is that the whale that surfaces

gets harpooned. In 2018, he made an exception. He gave a speech that was never supposed to be

recorded. But Peter believed the message was too important to keep private, as he put it,

it was critical for anyone interested in living a full, meaningful life with minimal regret.

So he allowed that talk to be transcribed. And I'm so glad he did because what he shared that day might be one of the

most valuable frameworks for living I've ever encountered. We're going to talk about some of the

lessons from that talk today using a lot of Peter's ideas and thinking. The complete transcript

and audio are reproduced at FS.blog with the written permission of Peter. So you can find a link in the description

for this episode or just Google the multidisciplinary approach to thinking. Let's dive in.

Peter opens his talk by asking why multidisciplinary thinking is important. The answer comes

from the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittenstein who said to understand is to know what

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