Be consistently not stupid

It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: 'It's the strong swimmers who drown.'

-- Charles Munger, quoted by Peter Bevelin in Seeking Wisdom. From Darwin to Munger, p. 58

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