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Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

Ray Dalio

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
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work 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
That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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Acceptance Myself Radiant Truth
Treat your life like a game.
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Game Life One Liner Treat
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.
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People Potential Special Thinking
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it’s a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
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Demand Measurement Mistake Myself Quantity Tradition
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
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Difference Meditation Moments Myself Notice
Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.
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Delicious Hope Life Rejection Taste 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
It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
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Big Important Inspirational Perfection Small
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
Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
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People Seek Understand
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
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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Life Live Principle Value Yourself

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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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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