Charles Munger: Override Your Subconscious Using Two-Track Analysis

In the book – Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Charles Munger discusses overriding your subconscious by using two-track analysis. Here’s an excerpt from the book:

Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered? And second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is automatically doing these things—which by and large are useful, but which often misfunction.

One approach is rationality—the way you’d work out a bridge problem: by evaluating the real interests, the real probabilities and so forth. And the other is to evaluate the psychological factors that cause subconscious conclusions—many of which are wrong.