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He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

Ray Dalio

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.
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Believe Big Humanity Myself Problem Strength Weakness Wrong
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.
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People Potential Special Thinking
That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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Acceptance Myself Radiant Truth
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
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Complication Economy Move
Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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Life Live Principle Value Yourself
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.
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Beautiful Growth Positive Slow Speed Time
I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don’t have a process for properly examining these ideas to find out what’s true. That creates a world of distortions.
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Creation Greatness Kind Man Myself Thinking Tragedy World
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

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