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I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

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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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Creation People Photograph Team Trust
People 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.
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Beyond Experience Form Negative People
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
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
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
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Business Humble Independent Marketing Money Thinking Yourself
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
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
Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.
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Achievement Appearance Goal Goodness Worry
When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Emotion Spiritual Aware Yourself
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
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.
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Achievement Believe Choice Difficult
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work Yourself
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
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
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
Almost everything is like a machine.
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Machine One Liner People
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
I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.
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Believe Decision Independent Myself Need Thinking
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
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
Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can’t stand it.
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Evidence Hard Time Mistake People Problem Stand Way Weakness
You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.
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Assumption Future Hold Strategy 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
Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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Decision Organization Work
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
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Forget Motivational Technology Understand

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