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When you think that it’s too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful.

Ray Dalio

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
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
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
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Arrogant Field Intellectual Play Pride Stand
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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Advice Believe Best Life True Yourself
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
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Achievement Creation Ideal Problem Progress Reality Success True Understand
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
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Forget Motivational Technology Understand
Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.
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Gold Market Money Opportunity Price Way
Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
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Believe Reading Trust Yourself
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work Yourself
I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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Meditation Myself Success Thinking
I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature’s laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws.
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Believe Consist Karma Law Myself Nature Punishment Reward Success
There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
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Control Drive Inspirational Yourself
When two intelligent parties disagree, that’s when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.
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Beginning Intelligence Learning Party Potential
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

When you think that it’s too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful.

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