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Seeking Wisdom
328 pages · 2007 · Rating 4.6
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Peter Bevelin's book, Seeking Wisdom, begins with a bit of wisdom from Confucius: A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake. Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's research on attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom began partly from his own mistakes and those he observed in others, but also from the philosophy of super-investor Charles Munger. A man whose simplicity and clarity of thought were unequaled by anything Bevelin had seen. In addition to naturalist Charles Darwin, the book cites an encyclopedic range of thinkers…
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