Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Mungerby Parker on TwosFew people can list a lot of bad habits that they have eliminated, and some people cannot identify even one of these. Instead, practically everyone has a great many bad habits he has long maintained despite their being known as badSocial-proof tendency, an automatic tendency to think and act as he sees others around him thinking and actingLearn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth havingMan's imperfect, limited-capacity brain easily drifts into working with what's easily available to itThe strength of extra-vivid images should be used as a device for improving one's own memory by attaching vivid images to many items one doesn't want to forgetAll skills attenuate with disuse