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It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

Ray Dalio

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.
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Deal Difficult Disappear Face Hard Problem Yourself
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there’s an education level that plays into the mix and so if it’s inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
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Competition Cost Education Factor Goodness Place Reality Word
It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
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Big Important Inspirational Perfection Small
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right
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Believe Best Evidence Finding Interest Share Truth Way
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
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
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Flow Future Interest Investment Pay Rate
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
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Measurement Money People Return Rough Society
Treat your life like a game.
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Game Life One Liner Treat
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
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
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Difference Meditation Moments Myself Notice
Since 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.
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Development Leadership Learning Pain Problem Solution Way Yourself
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
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
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
School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
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Fall Instruction Life People Reality School Success Typical Young

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