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Ray Dalio

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
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Money People Production Society Warning
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
To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
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Best Decision Independent Need Success Thinking
I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.
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Believe Decision Independent Myself Need Thinking
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
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
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
When you’re faced with a choice, you have one of three choices that you can have. You can have those with power decide. You can have one man, one vote. Or you can have believability-weighted decision-making.
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Choice Decision Face Man Vote Yourself
I 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.
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Behavior Establishment Media Member Thinking
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
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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Believe Big Humanity Myself Problem Strength Weakness Wrong
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
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Limitation Mindset Thinking Yourself
Almost everything is like a machine.
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Machine One Liner People
Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Calm Challenge Emotion Help Meditation Stay Yourself
There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.
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Class Drive Growth Main Return
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

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