For years, I approached my goals the same way most people do with a forward-thinking approach. I have kept a journal with ChatGPT with both daily goals and long term aspirations, so each day started by asking myself average questions like, how do I get more successful and the big one, how do I make more money? At the same time, I've always tried to focus on my mental health to stop stress before it starts.
But then I came across one of the most famous mental models from the late billionaire investor Charlie Munger: “Invert, always invert.” For anyone new to Charlie Munger, he’s well worth discovering. I did a deep dive with NotebookLM on his rules for goals and his approach to mindset, which included learning across multiple fields, often drawing from math, philosophy and psychology to better understand how the world works and make smarter decisions.
Munger believed that many of life’s hardest problems become easy when you flip them upside down. Instead of asking how to win, you ask how to lose and then you ruthlessly avoid those mistakes.
