Most career advice is about optimization—how to be more productive, more visible, more strategic. But Charlie Munger, the late billionaire investor and Warren B

Most career advice is about optimization—how to be more productive, more visible, more strategic. But Charlie Munger, the late billionaire investor and Warren Buffett’s intellectual partner, had a different approach: “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” In other words, don’t chase brilliance—just avoid catastrophe.