
Principles: Life and Work

Remember that weaknesses don’t matter if you find solutions.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
It’s a basic reality that if you don’t experience the consequences of your actions, you’ll take less ownership of them.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
The most meaningful relationships are achieved when you and others can speak openly to each other about everything that’s important, learn together, and understand the need to hold each other accountable to be as excellent as you can be. When you have such relationships with those you work with, you pull each other through challenging times; at the
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The principles you choose can be anything you want them to be as long as they are authentic—i.e., as long as they reflect your true character and values.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
e. Inexperienced people can have great ideas too, sometimes far better ones than more experienced people. That’s because experienced thinkers can get stuck in their old ways.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
1. Put our honest thoughts out on the table, 2. Have thoughtful disagreements in which people are willing to shift their opinions as they learn, and 3. Have agreed-upon ways of deciding (e.g., voting, having clear authorities) if disagreements remain so that we can move beyond them without resentments.