Inspirational speeches (like commencement addresses) typically tell us how to be successful or happy. But on June 3, 1986 Charlie Munger, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, instead gave a 2012 word speech titled How to Guarantee a Life of Misery. You can read a full transcript on James Clear’s web site. Assuming a speech rate of 125 words per minute, his speech would have a TED Talk length of 16 minutes.
There is an article by Polina Pompliano at The Profile on May 27, 2020 titled The Profile Dossier: Charlie Munger, the Master of Mental Models. It discusses his use of inversion – flipping things over. Also, there is another article by Christopher Dwyer at Psychology Today on July 27, 2023 titled Could inversion improve your decision-making?
On January 12, 2014 I published a blog post titled Don’t just get on the bandwagon! Find your own speech topic and approach. The third approach I listed was to Flip Things Over. As an example, I referred to a post on June 24, 2008 titled Don’t be a “Flip Chart Charlie” – where instead of a How-To, I described How-Not-To.
The miserable cartoon was adapted from here at Openclipart.
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