The Secret to Getting Smarter? Charlie Munger Says It's Simple | Final Interview with CNBC 2023

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BECKY QUICK: Let’s talk about a few cultural things. I know reading is the one way that you say — the only way — people can really get smart. You don’t know anyone who’s gotten smarter who doesn’t read a lot.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, yes. Even the fiction of the world — which includes a good deal of the Bible — the Bible and Shakespeare and the great novels and all that stuff. People were good at painting pictures and telling stories — and people learn best when they learn a story. It looks more like a piece of a life, a story. So it works.

BECKY QUICK: What are you reading right now?

CHARLIE MUNGER: People know I’m a nut on books and they kind of like Poor Charlie’s Almanack or something, so what do they do? They send me books. Gifts. I get so many books sent to this house as gifts that I no longer buy books. I just select from those that people give me. I kind of like doing it and I think they kind of like doing it. It’s very peculiar. 

 

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