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Very few people have gone through the process of explicitly calibrating their personal level of risk‐aversion, even though all of us are regularly making decisions about how much risk to take. When we decide how much of our savings to put at risk in the stock market or in a business that we're trying to build, or whether to rent versus buy a home with or without a mortgage, we are making decisions that are related to our personal risk‐aversion, even if we're not consciously aware of it.

The Missing Billionaires

Victor Haghani and James White

In so behaving, the University of Chicago is imitating Darwin, who spent much of his long life thinking in reverse as he tried to disprove his own hardest-won and best-loved ideas. And so long as there are parts of academia that keep alive its best values by thinking in reverse like Darwin, we can confidently expect that silly educational practices will eventually be replaced by better ones, exactly as Carl Jacobi might have predicted.

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, John Collison, and Warren Buffett

PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

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