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I’d like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don’t hesitate to say so – which they and I cherish.

Ray Dalio

That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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Acceptance Myself Radiant Truth
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
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Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
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Control Drive Inspirational Yourself
Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.
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Acceptance Comfortable Excellence Game Play Thrill Yourself
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work 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
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
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Money People Production Society Warning
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
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Big Life Meditation Myself Success
I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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Meditation Myself Success Thinking
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right
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Believe Best Evidence Finding Interest Share Truth Way
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 nothing to fear from truth….Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.
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Essential Fear Independent Right Thinking Truth Understand
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
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Help Myself Observation Reason Writing Wrong
When two intelligent parties disagree, that’s when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.
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Beginning Intelligence Learning Party Potential
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

I’d like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don’t hesitate to say so – which they and I cherish.

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