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An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

Ray Dalio

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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Black Dimension Eyes Power White 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
Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.
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Achievement Appearance Goal Goodness Worry
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
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
In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I’ve wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.
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End Motivational People Relationship Share Value Work
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
Treat your life like a game.
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Game Life One Liner Treat
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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Appearance Goodness Mistake Observation Worry Yourself
Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
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People Seek Understand
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
I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.
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Believe Decision Independent Myself Need Thinking
I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.
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Achievement Believe Desire Dreams Imagination Myself Simplicity Understand
I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.
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Behavior Establishment Media Member Thinking
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 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

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