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If you have the power to see things through somebody else’s eyes, it’s like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

Ray Dalio

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
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Achievement Creation Ideal Problem Progress Reality Success True Understand
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.
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People Potential Special Thinking
By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.
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Connection Deserve Life Responsibility Yourself
When you’re faced with a choice, you have one of three choices that you can have. You can have those with power decide. You can have one man, one vote. Or you can have believability-weighted decision-making.
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Choice Decision Face Man Vote Yourself
Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
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Bad Goodness Hide Place Radiant Reason
I’ve learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.
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Learning Mistake Myself Reflection Wrong
I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and it’ll carry through the day.
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Carry Day Flow Meditation Myself
I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
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Ethics Integrity Judgement Learning Love People Perspective
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
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Business Humble Independent Marketing Money Thinking Yourself
Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them – i.e., reflecting – if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.
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Development Leadership Learning Pain Problem Solution Way Yourself
There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
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Acceptance Bad Eyes See Strong
Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Calm Challenge Emotion Help Meditation Stay Yourself
Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.
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Experience Intellectual Leadership Learning Production Quality Remember
People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don’t know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.
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Future Goodness Hide People Proper Weakness Worry
To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
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Best Decision Independent Need Success Thinking
That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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Acceptance Myself Radiant Truth

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