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Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.

Ray Dalio

There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
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Control Drive Inspirational Yourself
There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.
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Class Drive Growth Main Return
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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Hesitate Myself People Tolerance
School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
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Fall Instruction Life People Reality School Success Typical Young
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
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
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there’s an education level that plays into the mix and so if it’s inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
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Competition Cost Education Factor Goodness Place Reality Word
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.
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Deal Difficult Disappear Face Hard Problem Yourself
When you think that it’s too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful.
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Easy Hard Remember Success Thinking
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.
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Believe Big Humanity Myself Problem Strength Weakness Wrong
It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
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Big Important Inspirational Perfection Small
The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask ‘what is true’ – and then ask yourself ‘what should be done about it.’ I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don’t!
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Advice Believe Best Life True Yourself
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
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
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

Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.

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Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.

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