{"id":4164,"date":"2026-01-23T06:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:09:26","slug":"inversion-thinking-avoiding-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/inversion-thinking-avoiding-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"INVERSION\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THINKING\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (AVOIDING STUPIDITY)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SCRIPTURE: Turn away from evil and do good. (Psalm 34:14) THE ENTREPRENEUR\u2019S REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charlie Munger said, &#8220;Tell me where I&#8217;m going to die so I never go there.&#8221; This is Inversion. Instead of trying to be brilliant, just try to avoid being stupid. Instead of asking, &#8220;How do I make my company great?&#8221;, ask, &#8220;What would destroy my company?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running out of cash? -&gt; Build a cash reserve. Getting sued? -&gt; Get contracts signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bad reputation? -&gt; Deliver on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Success is often just the absence of fatal mistakes. Block the exits before you try to expand the entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THE EXECUTION PROTOCOL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pre-Mortem: Imagine it is Dec 31, 2026, and your business has failed. Write down the 3 reasons why it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Plan: Write one preventative measure for each of those 3 reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Risk Mitigation: Back up your data today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCRIPTURE: Turn away from evil and do good. (Psalm 34:14) THE ENTREPRENEUR\u2019S REFLECTION Charlie Munger said, &#8220;Tell me where I&#8217;m going to die so I never go there.&#8221; This is Inversion. Instead of trying to be brilliant, just try to avoid being stupid. Instead of asking, &#8220;How do I make my company great?&#8221;, ask, &#8220;What &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edd2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}