新合成一个文集，用于分析、学习查理•芒格的思想，近几年陆陆续续买了几本撰写他投资思想的书，边读挺有感悟的，拾人牙慧也要有价值输出。于是决定有一段时间慢慢啃、慢慢输出。
先从一段网上能欣赏到的2007年USC法学院毕业生典礼上他的演讲视频开始，演讲稿原文如后。一天分析不完，今天就先从前面几段入手。把后文中蕴含闪光点的句子挪到了前面来，方便统一写自己的学习分析。
All my life I’ve admired Confucius. I like the idea of filial piety, the idea that there are values that are taught and duties that come naturally and all that should be passed on to the next generation.
解析： “filial piety” - 此处指中华民族传统的孝道；进一步本句话的意思是代际之间的“价值观、责任担当”等思想的传承是人来自然应该做的事情；所以老先生骨子里传道授业解惑的想法和孔夫子的是一脉相承的。
#1 By and large the people who have this ethos win in life and they don’t win just money, just honors emoluments. They win the respect, the deserved trust, of the people they deal with, and there is huge pleasure in life to be obtained from getting deserved trust.
解析： 概括来说本句是指“厚德载物”，所谓Ethos，东西方解读语境会有所不同，但从建设自身修养的方面，有其相同处，超越纯物质、纯精神，为获得身后依然存在的人类社会的尊重而努力，Deserved Trust可以解读为“德”之道。
#2 A second idea that I got very early was that there is no love that’s so right as admiration based love, and that love should include the instructive dead.
解析：“爱”不是无条件、不假思索的仰慕和被仰慕，而是带有“批判和受教育”意义的“有所得、有所施”。老爷子批评了Somerset Maugham的书“Of Human Bondage”《人生的枷锁》中描述的那种病态的爱，更希望晚辈们要学会独立思考。
#3 Another idea that I got and this may remind you of Confucius too, is that wisdom acquisition is a moral duty, it’s not something you do just to advance in life. Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty.
解析：学习和教育（wisdom acquisition的过程更是指一种对人生意义的学习，突破了日常的具体的细分的某一具体学科的学习）是一种道德责任和终身义务，而不仅仅让自己的人生“更领先”。
以上四点，老爷子说他自己都受恩于孔夫子的智慧思想，他个人也很看好东方智慧于现世中的现实价值。
先这样，慢慢来。打球继续。
Charlie Munger's Speech@USC Graduation Ceremony
23 May 2007
Well no doubt many of you are wondering why the speaker is so old, well the answer is obviously he hasn’t died yet.
And why was the speaker chosen? Well I don’t know that either. I like to think that the development department had nothing to do with it. Whatever the reason I think it’s very fitting that I'm sitting here because I see one crowd of faces in the rear not wearing robes, and I know, from having educated an army of descendants, who really deserves a lot of the honors that are being given are the people here upfront. The sacrifice and the wisdom and the value transfer that comes from one generation to the next can never be underrated.
And that gives me enormous pleasure as I look at this sea of Asian faces to my left. All my life I’ve admired Confucius. I like the idea of filial piety, the idea that there are values that are taught and duties that come naturally and all that should be passed on to the next generation. And you people who don’t think there’s anything in this idea, please note how fast these Asian faces are rising in American life. I think they have something.
All right, I scratched out a few notes and I’m going to try and just give an account of some ideas and attitudes that have worked well for me. I don’t claim that they are perfect for everybody. Although I think many of them are pretty close to Universal values and many of them are can’t fail ideas. What are the core ideas that have helped me? Well luckily I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea, it’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end. There is no ethos in my opinion, that is better for any lawyer or any other person to have. #1 By and large the people who have this ethos win in life and they don’t win just money, just honors emoluments. They win the respect, the deserved trust, of the people they deal with, and there is huge pleasure in life to be obtained from getting deserved trust.
And so the way to get it is to deliver what you’d want to buy if the circumstances were reversed. Occasionally you find a perfect rogue of a person, who dies rich and widely known. But mostly these people are fully understood by the surrounding civilization, and when the cathedral is full of people at the funeral ceremony, most of them are there to celebrate the fact that the person is dead. And, that reminds me of the story of the time when one of these people died and the minister said, “it’s now time for someone to say something nice about the deceased”.
And nobody came forward.
And nobody came forward.
And nobody came forward.
And finally one man came up and he said, “well, his brother was worse”. That is not where you want to go! That’s not the kind of funeral you want to have you'll leave entirely the wrong example.
#2 A second idea that I got very early was that there is no love that’s so right as admiration based love, and that love should include the instructive dead. Somehow I got that idea and I lived with it all my life and it’s been very very useful to me. A love like that celebrated by Somerset Maugham and his book “Of Human Bondage” that’s a sick kind of love, it’s a disease. And if you find yourself in a disease like that my advice to you is turn around and fix it. Eliminate it.
#3 Another idea that I got and this may remind you of Confucius too, is that wisdom acquisition is a moral duty, it’s not something you do just to advance in life. Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. And there’s a corollary to that proposition which is very important, it means that you’re hooked for lifetime learning, and without lifetime learning you people are not going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.
