Evaluate
Recently finished Lee Child's first Jack Reacher book, Killing Floor, and was struck by this excellent bit of management advice:
“Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive. First of all you evaluate. Analyze the situation. Identify the downside. Assess the upside. Plan accordingly. Do all that and you give yourself a better chance of getting through to the other stuff later.”
Eating like Buffett
I may not be able to invest like Warren Buffett or write like him, but I can commit to eating like him.
"I don't see smiles on the faces of people at Whole Foods." ~ Warren Buffett
And I'm hoping salt and fat have the same impact as how Charlie Munger views sugar:
"Sugar is an enormously helpful substance. It prevents premature softening of the arteries." ~ Charlie Munger