“Think for yourself to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true, and 3) what you should do to achieve #1 in light of #2 ... and do that with humility and open-mindedness so that you can consider the best thinking available to you.”

—  Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio, [Principles: Life and Work, https://books.google.com/books?id=6LGuDgAAQBAJ&pg=PR7, xi, 19 September 2017, Simon & Schuster, 978-1-5011-2405-1]
Principles: Life and Work (2017)

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