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Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

Ray Dalio

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
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
Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don’t know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don’t.
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Bad Easy Oneself Opinion Production Right Situation Value Worst
Though how nature works is way beyond man’s ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
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Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
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.
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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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I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don’t have a process for properly examining these ideas to find out what’s true. That creates a world of distortions.
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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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People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.
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To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
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Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
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Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you’ve made a mistake or don’t know something.
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Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
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