RWH066: Essential Truths w/ Howard Marks, Nima Shayegh & William Green
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Stoic Practices for Enduring Suffering
William shares Stoic lessons from Epictetus, Stockdale, and Bill Miller about control, inner conduct, and resilience.
William Green highlights essential truths about investing, business & life that emerged from two of his favorite interviews with Howard Marks and Nima Shayegh. This episode also explores powerful lessons on resilience from Bill Miller & Epictetus. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:31 - How investing legend Howard Marks views the euphoria over AI 00:11:10 - What potential mistakes he warns against in this environment 00:13:23 - What essential lessons William Green has learned from Howard 00:23:00 - How Howard keeps an even keel amid extreme uncertainty 00:26:09 - Why Howard, like Einstein, doesn’t think much about the future 00:34:19 - Why investing early & not “tampering” is the key to success 00:38:39 - How Nima Shayegh looks beyond numbers to find great stocks 00:44:19 - How to harness intuition & emotion in the investment process 00:49:13 - How products from Tesla & Amazon inspire “blown-awayness” 00:57:10 - What Nima learned from his famed mentor, Lou Simpson 01:04:38 - How Lou’s success was built on humility 01:19:55 - How Lou & Nima inspire William’s yearning for a spacious life 01:23:56 - How to handle suffering with help from Bill Miller & Epictetus
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