96. The Purpose Of Thinking

Christopher Govender -

Charlie Munger, the famous former vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, said, "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there."

What is the purpose of thinking?

“The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

But how?

“By criticizing our theories we can let our theories die in our stead.”
― Karl Popper, Myth of the Framework