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Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

Ray Dalio

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
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
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
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Arrogant Field Intellectual Play Pride Stand
The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it’s silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).
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Call Choice Harm Pain Problem Solution Understand Yourself
I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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Meditation Myself Success Thinking
Almost everything is like a machine.
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Machine One Liner People
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.
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Beautiful Growth Positive Slow Speed Time
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
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Limitation Mindset Thinking Yourself
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
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Believe Reading Trust Yourself
Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.
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Bad Better Essential Expectation Feeling Learning Mistake Process
Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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Life Live Principle Value Yourself
It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.
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Difficult Law Nature Work Yourself
More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.
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Live Object People Potential Willing
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
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Country Current Decline Interest Rate
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it’s a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
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Demand Measurement Mistake Myself Quantity Tradition

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

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