Charlie Munger: People calculate too much and think too little

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I am reading Poor Charlie’s Almanack at the moment. When he talks about the dangers of computer, he says that people calculate too much and think too little. I agree with him completely. We can use Excel to analyze to death anything, including the likelihood of getting killed in various ways. We can analyze so many things, calculate using complicated formulas, yet we think too little. We rather let someone does the thinking, and tells us about it. Many people are just parroting after the experts. When the experts say that the job market is good or bad or will be good or bad, we believe it without knowing whether they are stating fact or opinion.