43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-10-22
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“If the quality of your decisions determine the quality of your life, then you should work on improving the quality of your…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“Experience taught me how invaluable it is to reflect on and write down my decision-making criteria whenever I made a decision, so…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: focus.
People
“Um, people start to, uh, former employees and the like start to...”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“Um, as you see, if you order, I think it only comes in actually hardcover right now, hardcover and Kindle.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“Studying all those painful first-time encounters, I learned that even if they hadn't happened to me, most of them had happened to…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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