I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
RAY DALIOI think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
RAY DALIOSince the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them – i.e., reflecting – if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.
RAY DALIOThe 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.
RAY DALIOLook at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
RAY DALIODo not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.
RAY DALIOThere is nothing to fear from truth….Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.
RAY DALIOLife 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.
RAY DALIOMeditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
RAY DALIOPeople who worry about looking good typically hide what they don’t know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.
RAY DALIOAn economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
RAY DALIOI 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.
RAY DALIOPeople 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.
RAY DALIOSome people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
RAY DALIOMeditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
RAY DALIONature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
RAY DALIORemember 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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