Warren Buffett’s, the controversial investor, business partner Charlie Munger once famously said: “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” That is inverted thinking. Munger says German mathematician Jacobi’s work inspired him to think like that. Jacobi was known to solve complex problems by follow the mental model of inversion. “Man muss immer umkehren,” he would say. (“Invert, always invert.”). Munger says that many difficult problems in life are best solved when addressed backward. It is in the nature of things. Ancient philosophers Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus used to perform an exercise where they would consider the