Inside Warren Buffett’s Inner Circle: How The Elite Think

TL;DR

Guy Spear, a value investor and author, describes how he modeled Warren Buffett, joined a peer investment group (the “Posse”), and used self-help techniques (Tony Robbins, Dale Carnegie) to rewire his mindset. The core conclusion: success in investing and life comes from playing an infinite game, focusing on compounding rather than beating indexes, and building systematic engines (e.g.

Key insights

• The “Posse” met weekly, requiring one member to present a written stock idea; the informal side conversations often yielded the best “meta information.”
• Guy’s Farmer Mac investment failed because he didn’t do the deep analysis Bill Ackman did — he hadn’t downloaded the underlying mortgage‑backed security filings and relied on a government guarantee.
• Handwritten notes are not just a gimmick; the act of writing them makes you genuinely care more about the recipient, which is a form of rewiring.