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The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speech
A recording of Charlie Munger's 1995 Harvard speech on the psychology of human misjudgment. He walks through a list of cognitive biases such as incentives, social proof, and overoptimism.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an insightful catalog of the biases that drive bad decisions, and links it often in Munger memorials and self-improvement threads.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Vikas Ojha
- Topic
- cognitive biases
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I'm not necessarily the biggest Charlie Munger fan, but I think he's got some wisdom and found his 1995 speech he gave on human biases at Harvard to be insightful and interesting: "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment" [VIDEO]
chrisco255 on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Today is Charlie Munger's 99th birthday> they've created a bespoke system of abstract beliefs swatcoder, can you please tell me how you particularly manage to learn from your mistakes? Some people create personal theories of how the world works, and then put their theories into action : A successful example …
robocat on Hacker News · 2024-04
In So you wanna de-bog yourself
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