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Principles
by Ray Dalio
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Your principles should reflect the values you truly believe in.
While it isn’t always a bad thing to use the principles of someone else (it’s hard to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created), adopting pre-packaged principles without much reflection can expose you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.
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Your principles will influence your standards of behavior. In relationships with other people, your and their principles will decide how you collaborate.
People who have shared values and principles get along. People who don’t share values and principles, experience misunderstandings and conflict with one another. Most of the times in relationships, our principles are ambiguous.
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Reality + Dreams + Determination = A Successful Life.
We translate our dreams into reality by continually interacting with reality (in pursuit of our dreams) and by using these interactions to learn more about reality itself and how to interact with it in order to get what we want. We must do that with determination.
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The most important thing for you to do is write down your principles to clarify them.
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