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I’ve learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

Ray Dalio

In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I’ve wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.
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End Motivational People Relationship Share Value Work
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
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Difference Meditation Moments Myself Notice
By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.
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Connection Deserve Life Responsibility Yourself
School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
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Fall Instruction Life People Reality School Success Typical Young
I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.
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Achievement Believe Desire Dreams Imagination Myself Simplicity Understand
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Emotion Spiritual Aware 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
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
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
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
Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had.
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Factor Meditation Myself Reason Success
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
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
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

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