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For a learning disability that everyone seems to know about, dyslexia is maybe the most commonly misunderstood and controversial cognitive difficulty there is. Some people think it’s a gift, some people think it doesn’t even exist. Learn more in this classic episode.

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This is Zack Fuss. Today we are breaking down the Mitsubishi Corporation. In Japan, the business model of a trading company is prominent. The big five trading companies caught the attention of global investors in 2020, when Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a major stake in all of them: Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Itochu, Marubeni, and Sumitomo.Today's Berkshire stake is nearly 10%.
I'm joined by Krishna Mohanraj, a Portfolio Manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management. In this episode, we discuss how the rich history of trading houses is steeped in Japanese culture and how each differs from one another. Krishna helps unravel the evolution of stakeholder priorities and how capital allocation policies have changed in the Japanese capital markets. Please enjoy this Breakdown of Mitsubishi Corporation.

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Show Notes
(00:00:00) Welcome to Business Breakdowns
(00:03:12) First Question - Understanding Mitsubishi's Global Impact and Business Model
(00:07:12) The Evolution of Mitsubishi and Japanese Trading Houses
(00:12:12) Mitsubishi's Investment Case and Market Position
(00:15:02) Comparing Mitsubishi with Other Japanese Trading Houses
(00:18:22) The Secret to Mitsubishi's Success and Global Network
(00:21:16) The Relevance of Berkshire’s Investment in the Japanese Trading Houses
(00:26:45) A Cultural Shift in the Orientation of Japanese Businesses Towards Their Shareholders
(00:28:35) Valuing Mitsubishi
(00:31:05) Reinvesting in The Business And Reallocating Capital
(00:33:02) Mitsubishi’s Unique Management Dynamic
(00:38:54) Advantages of the Mitsubishi Group
(00:42:44) Lessons Learned from Mitsubishi
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• The future is now with stem cell treatments for longevity – stem cell treatments can be targeted, dosed, and have predictable outcomes like pharmaceuticals
  • In early trials, stem cells transplanted into the brain created new dopamine neurons and put Parkinson’s disease into remission
• To tackle longevity, we need to go back to first-order principles of wellness: muscle, inflammation, oxidative stress
• Tip: have an accountability system, whether it’s a health coach or buddy who will hold you to it
• Medicine 4.0 is on the horizon, allowing people greater access to gene therapy treatments to help people increase their healthspan
  • Look out for klotho, NK cell treatments, placental implants, and Vagus nerve blocks to become common practice

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• The key question to consider about work and productivity: “How do we produce stuff, and be proud and ambitious about what we are doing, but also not burn out?”
• Pseudo-productivity places too great an emphasis on looking busy but not creating anything of value; it is busyness for the sake of busyness because measuring productivity any other way in the knowledge work sector is too difficult
• Do not shatter your day into fragments so small that you get nothing meaningful done
• History’s greatest knowledge workers worked very slowly
• Doing fewer things at once will enable you to accomplish more things
• Your results are determined by intensity in the short term and consistency in the long term
• Never give a yes or a no in the room; not saying yes or no in the room creates psychological distance from the decision
• “Busyness” is attractive to people because it is a goal that they can succeed at; if a person wants to be busy, they will be busy
• Signal to others that you are very careful about your time
• “People who obsess over quality grow antibodies to busyness.” – Cal Newport

Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University, a productivity expert and an author.
If you’ve ever felt that you’re not as productive as you could be, you’re not alone. But what if the goal isn't to be more productive, but to let go of the goals that aren't serving you? What if the power of saying no to more things is the most important skill you can develop?
Expect to learn what our current problem with being productive is, why pseudo-productivity is a catastrophe, the advantages to what Cal calls Slow Productivity, how to better organise your communication, the best strategies for implementing a productivity schedule, how to stop saying yes all the time and much more...
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• A common interpretation across civilizations is that solar eclipses happen when the people on earth have done something bad
• Another popular interpretation of solar eclipses is that when humans were fighting too much on Earth, the sun and the moon would begin to fight in the sky
• In ancient civilizations, evidence of human sacrifices is common in places where eclipses occurred
• Today is the most cosmically perfect time in the history of the universe; the fact that we can see eclipses at all is a complete coincidence
• In 620 million years, the moon will be far away enough from Earth that we will no longer have total eclipses, only partial eclipses
• No other rocky planet in the solar system has a moon large enough to cause a total eclipse
• After the April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse, the next viewable solar eclipse in the United States won’t be until 2040

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• The Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York was the site of the worst environmental disaster involving chemical waste in U.S. history
• The site was eventually filled in, and years later after selling the land to the City of Niagara for $1, housing developments and a school were built on top of it
• In just a few years after people started living in the area, some people began developing horrible physical defects, and the rate of birth defects skyrocketed
• Many residents who moved into the area had no idea that toxic waste was stored below them
• In 1976, the Niagara Gazette published the first article that explained the origins of the Love Canal neighborhood, explaining the history of the Hooker Company and the toxic waste that was buried beneath the soil
• It took several years for the issue to be acknowledged; several city-sponsored investigations took place, but the results were not shared with the local populous
• Grassroot initiatives, led by Lois Gibbs, eventually brought national media attention to the crisis; her efforts led to $50+ million in federal and state funding to mitigate the effects of the disaster
• A state of emergency was declared, the town was eventually shut down and flattened, and all but two families left Love Canal
• People have since moved back into the area, which is now known as Black Creek; today, some of the people living in the town remain unaware of the history of Love Canal

A man with an unfulfilled vision left a huge gash in the ground near Niagara Falls. Then a chemical company came along and filled it with toxic waste. Then people came along and built homes and an elementary school on top of it. Then things went badly.

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What I learned from reading The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.

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(1:00) This is a 100 page biography of the human species

(1:00) The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant (Full Set)

(2:30) Generations of men establish a growing mastery over the earth, but they are destined to become fossils in its soil.

(4:00) Ruthlessly prioritize how you spend your time.

(4:00) The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows.

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Napoleon and Modern War by Napoleon and Col. Lanza. (Founders #337)

(8:00) Our job is to make our companies and ourselves better equipped to meet the test of survival.

(11:30) Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.

(12:30) The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happinessby Naval Ravikant and Eric Jorgenson. (Founders #191)

(14:30) In the end, superior ability has its way.

(16:30) Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed.

(19:00) The imitative majority follows the innovating minority and this follows the originative individual, in adapting new responses to the demands of environment or survival.

(20:00) If you can identify an enduring human need you can build a business around that.

(21:00) In every age men have been dishonest and governments have been corrupt.

(25:00) Survival at all costs: Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives, and bad as that which goes under.

(25:00) Victory in our industry is spelled survival. — Steve Jobs

(25:00) All that matters is to survive. The rest is just words. — Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson. (Founders #224)

(26:00) By being so cautious in respect to leverage and having loads of liquidity, we will be equipped both financially and emotionally to play offense while others scramble for survival. — The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett and Lawrence Cunningham (Founders #227)

(27:00) History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

(31:00) The Iron Law of Oligarchy

(32:00) Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability.

(33:00) The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb by James Kunetka.(Founders #215)

(34:00) Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman

(37:00) All technological advances will have to be written off as merely new means of achieving old ends

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Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at least in any traditional sense of the word. It’d rather be more accurate to call them scientists — scientists who’ve discovered a system of math, computers and artificial intelligence that has evolved into the greatest money making machine the world has ever seen. And boy does it work: RenTec’s alchemic colossus has posted annual returns in the firm’s flagship Medallion Fund of 68% gross and 40% net over the past 34 years, while never once losing money. (For those keeping track at home, $1,000 invested in Medallion in 1988 would have compounded to $46.5B today… if you’d been allowed to keep it in.) Tune in for an incredible story of the small group of rebel mathematicians who didn’t just beat the market, but in the words of author Greg Zuckerman “solved it.”

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• Your eye is like a clock, telling the time through light exposure; the light that comes into our eyes is seen by a lot of the processes going on inside our body
• The defect is not solely in your genes, it’s in your environment
• The organization of the melanin inside your body contributes to chronic disease
• Be an observer of nature – never stop asking questions
• Think in a decentralized fashion, not a reductionist
• Melanin allows us to keep proper time so that the motor function happens and is coordinated at the right time – light exposure can set the stage for disease if you’re not getting enough
• Pay attention to the light and the dark – exposure to both matters for your health
• “When you change your environment, you can change your thoughts.” – Dr. Jack Kruse
• We ignore our body’s needs for our wants; it’s our duty to understand our body – this will improve our health
• Anything you can do to get more sunlight, and more hours of the day is beneficial for our health
  • Tip: eat food within your circadian cycle; eat local produce that makes sense for your region

Dr. Jack Kruse is a neurosurgeon who had an awakening in 2007 after suffering a torn meniscus. This led to his study of physics, light, magnetism, and electricity. He ultimately concluded that modern medicine lacked a deep understanding of how humans function in relation to the natural world. Kruse lost 150 lbs. using his newly acquired understanding. He is CEO of Kruse Longevity Center, a health and wellness company dedicated to helping patients avoid the healthcare burdens typically encountered with age.

Bill Gifford is coauthor, with Peter Attia, of Outlive, a current New York Times bestseller. He is a veteran journalist and editor who has written extensively on science, sports, and fitness for Wired, Businessweek, Men's Health, Men's Journal, Slate, and The New Republic. He is also the author of books like Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer and Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying).

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