Parking Lot Wisdom
I'm not an enviro-mental, so I don't go out in the wilds too often. Thus it was exciting to take a stroll through the parking lot during lunch. What strikes me as odd is that everyone's vehicles were in mostly good shape. If people were truly acting out of a desire to hurt others, then all the windows would be shot out, all the doors would be keyed, the tires would be slashed, etc. Thats just not the case. When I worked as a Customer Service Manager at Walmart I used to marvel at the 95% of people. None of them were acting in their own best interest. In fact they would frequently act against it. For the life of me I could not understand why, until I came across Charlie Munger's mental models. People do not act in their own best interest. People do not act for money. People do not act for entertainment. People do not act out of a sense of justice. Instead the brain causes people to take 'short cuts' in their actions. People are just...