
Discover Austrian investing wisdom in "The Dao of Capital," where hedge fund legend Mark Spitznagel blends economics with forestry, warfare, and martial arts. Endorsed by Ron Paul, this counterintuitive approach helped Spitznagel predict major market crashes. What could patient, roundabout thinking do for your portfolio?
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Imagine a world where the most successful investors deliberately lose money in the short term. Where military generals retreat to gain advantage. Where trees survive by first growing in the harshest conditions. This is the counterintuitive wisdom at the heart of "The Dao of Capital." Mark Spitznagel reveals a profound strategy that transcends investing - the roundabout approach of sacrificing immediate gains to position for vastly greater future returns. In a culture obsessed with immediate gratification, this ancient wisdom offers a revolutionary perspective: the most direct path to success is often indirect. The roundabout approach finds its philosophical roots in ancient Daoism, particularly the concept of wuwei - not passive inaction but strategic positioning. "The soft and weak vanquish the hard and strong," teaches the Laozi, advocating deliberate weakness now to gain overwhelming strength later. This principle manifests in taijiquan martial arts, where practitioners yield before counterattacking, and in guerrilla warfare, where smaller forces retreat strategically before striking from positions of advantage. What makes this approach so powerful is how it transcends mere patience. It's about developing what Spitznagel calls "depth of field" - the ability to perceive multiple moments in time simultaneously, like a photographer keeping both foreground and background in sharp focus.
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco

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