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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

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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Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
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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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To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
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There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
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Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
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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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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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The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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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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He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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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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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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There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.
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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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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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