From Charlie Munger’s “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”
“The otherwise complex behavior of man is much simplified when he automatically thinks and does what he observes to be thought and done around him.” (p. 480)
“This make it wise for parents to rely more on manipulating the quality of the peers than on exhortations to their own offspring.”
“When will Social-Proof Tendency be most easily triggered? Triggering most readily occurs in the presence of puzzlement or stress, and particularly when both exist.”
“Because both bad and good behavior are made contagious by Social=Proof Tendency, it is highly important that human societies (1) stop any bad behavior before it spreads and (2) foster and display all good behavior.”
“Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.”