TIP640: Investing: The Last Liberal Art w/ Clay Finck & Kyle Grieve

On today’s episode, Clay and Kyle dive into Robert Hagstrom’s book — Investing: The Last Liberal Art. Charlie Munger is famous for popularizing the use of mental models and pulling key ideas from related fields and implementing them to the world of investing. In today’s episode, that’s exactly what we do, starting with the fields of physics, biology, sociology, and psychology. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 01:27 - How learning new mental models can help us be better investors. 10:49 - Concepts in physics that we can carry over to investing. 25:35 - Lessons we can learn from evolution and complex adaptive systems. 42:00 - What leads to a stock oscillating above and below the intrinsic value. 54:15 - The primary psychological biases as lead to investment mistakes. 01:05:43 - Why Lumine’s incentive structure is a structure worth studying. And so much more! Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members. Buy Investing: The Last Liberal Art here. Read Seeking Winners blog here. Buy What I Learned about Investing from Darwin here. Buy The Uncertainty Solution here. Learn more about Charlie Munger’s speech here. Learn more about Mental Models here. Read Li Lu’s write-up on value investing in China here. Buy Poor Charlie’s Almanck here. Follow Clay on Twitter and LinkedIn. Follow Kyle on Twitter and LinkedIn. Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here. Enjoy ad-free episodes when you subscribe to our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River Toyota Sun Life The Bitcoin Way Meyka Sound Advisory Industrious Range Rover iFlex Stretch Studios Briggs & Riley Public American Express USPS Shopify HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! }https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm