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Ray Dalio

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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Affect Beyond Lesson Nature Understand Way Work
There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.
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Class Drive Growth Main Return
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
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
Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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Decision Organization Work
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
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
I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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Meditation Myself Success Thinking
I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
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Ethics Integrity Judgement Learning Love People Perspective
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
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work Yourself
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
That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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Acceptance Myself Radiant Truth
If you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.
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Economics History Yourself
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
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

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