Official account of Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, author of #1 New York Times bestseller 'Principles,' professional mistake maker
Joined on 3 August, 2009
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If you limit your goals to what you know you can achieve, you are setting the bar way too low. #principleoftheday
6. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
5. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
3. An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity.
4. Every person must decide at some point whether they will walk in light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
I admired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he was a principled man with great principles. The couple that stick in my mind at this time are:
1. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
2. We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.
Achievement orientation is important, but people who obsess over a $1,200 pair of shoes or a fancy car are very rarely happy because they don’t know what it is that they really want and hence what will satisfy them. #principleoftheday
They appear to be right in observing that there is a backlash brewing against distortions in the media. I hope so and hope that will lead to greater accuracy of reporting. (5/5)
They said “Spreading disinformation — whether about the election, public health or climate change — has real world consequences,” and it is bound lead to “a reckoning” for media. Their statement is highly informed, true, and courageous. (4/5)
...saying the media are as culpable as politicians who ‘know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies.’” (3/5)
That is why I applaud James and Kathryn Murdoch’s honest and bold public statement that, as described by the FT “castigates the US media for the ‘toxic politics’ threatening American democracy... (2/5)
Media distortions are killing us and most people are reluctant to stand up against them because they are afraid that the media they are criticizing will destroy them. (1/5)
A proper goal is something that you really need to achieve. Desires are things that you want that can prevent you from reaching your goals. #principleoftheday
Do you let it consume you and drive you to irrational acts, or do you harness it to motivate and drive you while you pursue your real goals? (2/2)
Take passion, for example. Without passion, life would be dull; you wouldn’t want to live without it. But what’s key is what you do with your passion. (1/2)
Collecting these gems continually improves my decision making, so I am able to ascend to higher and higher levels of play in which the game gets harder and the stakes become ever greater. (4/4)
By solving the puzzle, I get a gem in the form of a principle that helps me avoid the same sort of problem in the future. (3/4)
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