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By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

Ray Dalio

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
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
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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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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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
People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.
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Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.
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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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Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
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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
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
I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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Meditation Myself Success Thinking
I’ve learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.
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Learning Mistake Myself Reflection Wrong

By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

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By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

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