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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.

Ray Dalio

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
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
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
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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Acceptance Bad Eyes See Strong
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
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
When you think that it’s too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful.
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Easy Hard Remember Success Thinking
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
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
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
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
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Limitation Mindset Thinking Yourself
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
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Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
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People Seek Understand
When two intelligent parties disagree, that’s when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.
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Beginning Intelligence Learning Party Potential
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
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Difference Meditation Moments Myself Notice

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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