Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
RAY DALIOSome people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
RAY DALIOThe more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
RAY DALIOThe 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!
RAY DALIOMeditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
RAY DALIOMeditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had.
RAY DALIOI 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.
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 DALIOWhen two intelligent parties disagree, that’s when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.
RAY DALIOIt is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.
RAY DALIOI 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.
RAY DALIOI 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.
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 DALIOThat’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
RAY DALIOPrinciples are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
RAY DALIOTreat your life like a game.
RAY DALIOThere 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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