“A book with legs sticking out”

“The learning and teaching opportunities related to investing are essentially unlimited. Munger likes to say that a successful investor never stops being a “learning machine.” This need to learn and relearn means that an investor must read and think constantly. Munger has said he does not know a single successful investor who does not read voraciously. His own children describe him as a “book with legs sticking out.””

– Tren Griffin, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

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I’d be happy to called a book with legs sticking out. A type of android. A learning machine.

Although my reading doesn’t have the purposefulness of Mr Munger, I can still justify it as my biggest positive addiction:

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“Usual Frame: Avoid addiction. Reframe: Choose your addictions wisely.

This reframe acknowledges the reality that humans are by nature easily addicted, but we are not addicted to the same things in the same ways…

Look for ways to consciously add positive addictions to your life to crowd out your less-helpful impulses…

I fill my schedule with positive addictions to leave less room for the toxic type. I sometimes call this reframe the Pleasure Unit Theory. The idea is that humans need a minimum daily amount of pleasure or else life will not be worth living.”

– Scott Adams, Reframe Your Brain

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I enjoy thinking of reading as a positive addiction. Is it wrong to be addicted to learning?

Writing is a recent addition to my list of positive addictions.

This blog is evidence of that.