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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
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and it’ll carry through the day.
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Carry Day Flow Meditation Myself
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
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
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
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
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.
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Balance Beautiful Drama Money Option Printing Word
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
Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
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Bad Goodness Hide Place Radiant Reason
Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.
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Delicious Hope Life Rejection Taste Yourself
When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation’s lower than expected, bonds go up.
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Bond Expectation Growth Investment Marketing Slow
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
I’m going to give away a lot more than half my money. I’d be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I’m giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.
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Believe Government Happiness Help Money Myself People
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
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Forget Motivational Technology Understand

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