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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.

Ray Dalio

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
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
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
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
Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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Decision Organization Work
I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and it’ll carry through the day.
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Carry Day Flow Meditation Myself
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
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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Choice Confusion Creation Impossible People True
People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don’t know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.
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Future Goodness Hide People Proper Weakness Worry
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
Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.
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Achievement Appearance Goal Goodness Worry
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
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Big Life Meditation Myself 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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Competition Cost Education Factor Goodness Place Reality Word
There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
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Control Drive Inspirational Yourself
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
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Device Limitation Nature Ourselves Pain Way
I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.
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Myself People Reaction Right Thinking

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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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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