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A comment on Charlie Munger – The Psychology of Human Misjudgment.

Re:Charlie Munger – The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by HiroshiSan on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:25AM (#15491105)
Can someone explain this line to me:

"As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory, failed despite monstrous effort."

Is he talking about conceptual understanding vs rote memorization? What theory is he talking about?

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Re:Charlie Munger – The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Rzor on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:41PM (#15493562)
Perhaps not rote memorization, but figuring things out by tinkering without a mental model or conceptual understanding as you say.
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