Prosperity365™

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[Prosperity365™ @Prosperity365]

They don’t miss you. They miss the version of themselves they were around you — higher standards, higher expectations, still self-aware, still some potential left. Not losing yet. Not lost yet.

[Larry P. Thomas @LPT365]

Even if you’re the total package, you’ll never matter at the wrong address.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Remember this: The pain is all in your head. If you want to evolve, you need to go where the problems and the pain are. By confronting the pain, you will see more clearly the paradoxes and problems you face. Reflecting on them and resolving them will give you wisdom. The harder the pain and the challenge, the better. Because these moments of pain are so important, you shouldn't rush through them. Stay in them and explore them so you can build a foundation for improvement. Embracing your failures--and confronting the pain they cause you and others--is the first step toward genuine improvement; it is why confession precedes forgiveness in many societies. Psychologists call this "hitting bottom." If you keep doing this you will convert the pain of facing your mistakes and weaknesses into pleasure and "get to the other side" as I explained in Embrace Reality and Deal with It. #principleoftheday

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Some things work and some things don't. There is almost always another way to get where you want to go. Don't keep trying to open a locked door.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

If you don't let up on yourself and instead become comfortable always operating with some level of pain, you will evolve at a faster pace. That's just the way it is.

Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life--you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion. The irony is that if you choose the healthy route, the pain will soon turn into pleasure. The pain is the signal! Like switching from not exercising to exercising, developing the habit of embracing the pain and learning from it will "get you to the other side."

By "getting to the other side," I mean that you will become hooked on:

-Identifying, accepting, and learning how to deal with your weaknesses,
-Preferring that the people around you be honest with you rather than keep their negative thoughts about you to themselves, and
-Being yourself rather than having to pretend to be strong where you are weak.

#principleoftheday

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

I’m at a stage in my life where my goal is to pass what I’ve learned along to others, and I often get asked for my advice for young people in particular. You are beginning the journey that I’m ending. I want to show you what your journey will be like and how to plan for it.

I have two free gifts that I believe will be invaluable for you, the Life Journey Exercise for Graduates and Principles for Success.

Let’s start by seeing where you are in your life and look ahead to what you can.

To do that now, look through these phases and what happens in them. See where you are now. Look at what’s ahead for you over the next 10 years. Do the same exercise for those you love so you see where they are in their life. Now plan for these things. The choices you make at these junctures have big implications on the life that you will have. As you will see, the paths we take along the way affect the type of journey we have.

If you’d like to experience an interactive version of the exercise, you can in the free Principles in Action app here: https://t.co/xHVy4RS5fr

If you’d like to learn about the principles that made me successful, you can watch the free video here: https://t.co/4RuCR6NAH3

#Graduation2024 #graduation #graduationday #LifeAdvice #success #lifejourney

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

The power of kindness: https://t.co/CxedD6clUj

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"The measure of wealth is freedom.
The measure of health is lightness.
The measure of intellect is judgment.
The measure of wisdom is silence.
The measure of love is peace."

@naval

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

There are all kinds of different people in the world, many of whom value different kinds of things. If you find you can't get in sync with someone on shared values, you should consider whether that person is worth keeping in your life. A lack of common values will lead to a lot of pain and other harmful consequences and may ultimately drive you apart. It might be better to head all that off as soon as you see it coming. #principleoftheday

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

You need to push through and that requires self-discipline to follow your script. It's important to remember the connections between your tasks and the goals that they are meant to achieve. https://t.co/lRzz3VQ8HE

When you feel yourself losing sight of that, stop and ask yourself "why?" Lose sight of the why and you will surely lose sight of your goals. #principleoftheday

[James Clear @JamesClear]

This thing that I am unhappy about, is it actually hard to change or is it simply hard to have the courage to change it?

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Realizing that we innately want to evolve--and that the other stuff we are going after, while nice, won't sustain our happiness--has helped me focus on my goals of evolving and contributing to evolution in my own infinitely small way. While we don't like pain, everything that nature made has a purpose, so nature gave us pain for a purpose. So what is its purpose? It alerts us and helps direct us. #principleoftheday

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

If you have good principles that guide you from your values to your day-to-day decisions but you don't have a systematic way of making sure they're regularly applied, they're not of much use. https://t.co/2uhaCtk9hZ

It's essential to build your most important principles into habits and help others do so as well. #principleoftheday

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

A core skill of emotional intelligence is observing feelings before internalizing them.

Emotions are messages from your past self to your present self. They're best interpreted by your future self.

Feelings don't define who you are. They reveal what you value right now.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

In times of tragedy, don't mistake inaction for apathy. It's often the result of empathy.

Empathic distress is feeling helpless in the face of suffering. It drains us until we're numb.

You never know whose pain others are carrying. They may need compassion more than you realize.

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[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

It’s important not to let our biases stand in the way of our objectivity. To get good results, we need to be analytical rather than emotional.

Whenever I observe something in nature that I (or mankind) think is wrong, I assume that I’m wrong and try to figure out why what nature is doing makes sense. That has taught me a lot. It has changed my thinking about 1) what’s good and what’s bad, 2) what my purpose in life is, and 3) what I should do when faced with my most important choices. To help explain why, I will give you a simple example.

When I went to Africa a number of years ago, I saw a pack of hyenas take down a young wildebeest. My reaction was visceral. I felt empathy for the wildebeest and thought that what I had witnessed was horrible. But was that because it was horrible or was it because I am biased to believe it’s horrible when it is actually wonderful? That got me thinking. Would the world be a better or worse place if what I’d seen hadn’t occurred? That perspective drove me to consider the secondand third-order consequences so that I could see that the world would be worse. I now realize that nature optimizes for the whole, not for the individual, but most people judge good and bad based only on how it affects them. What I had seen was the process of nature at work, which is much more effective at furthering the improvement of the whole than any process man has ever invented.

Most people call something bad if it is bad for them or bad for those they empathize with, ignoring the greater good. This tendency extends to groups: One religion will consider its beliefs good and another religion’s beliefs bad to such an extent that their members might kill each other in the mutual conviction that each is doing what’s right. Typically, people’s conflicting beliefs or conflicting interests make them unable to see things through another’s eyes. That’s not good and it doesn’t make sense. While I could understand people liking something that helps them and disliking things that hurt them, it doesn’t make sense to call something good or bad in an absolute sense based only on how it affects individuals. To do so would presume that what the individual wants is more important than the good of the whole. To me, nature seems to define good as what’s good for the whole and optimizes for it, which is preferable. #principleoftheday

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Where you go in life will depend on how you see things and who and what you feel connected to (your family, your community, your country, mankind, the whole ecosystem, everything). You will have to decide to what extent you will put the interests of others above your own, and which others you will choose to do so for. That's because you will regularly encounter situations that will force you to make such choices.

While such decisions might seem too erudite for your taste, you will make them either consciously or subliminally, and they will be very important.

For me personally, I now find it thrilling to embrace reality, to look down on myself through nature's perspective, and to be an infinitesimally small part of the whole. My instinctual and intellectual goal is simply to evolve and contribute to evolution in some tiny way while I'm here and while I am what I am. At the same time, the things I love most--my work and my relationships--are what motivate me. So, I find how reality and nature work, including how I and everything will decompose and recompose, beautiful--though emotionally I find the separation from those I care about difficult to appreciate. #principleoftheday

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Urging people to be positive doesn’t boost their resilience. It denies their reality.

When times are tough, we don’t need good vibes only. We need a hand to keep us steady through all the vibrations.

Strength doesn’t come from forced smiles. It comes from feeling supported.

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[James Clear @JamesClear]

Imagine the outcome you want to create.

Envision where you are headed in great detail. Don’t talk yourself out of it. Don’t encourage yourself to be realistic. You will have to wrestle with reality soon enough. Don’t be your own bottleneck at this stage.

What would the magical outcome be?

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

While there is nobody in the world who will share your point of view on everything, there are people who will share your most important values and the ways in which you choose to live them out. Make sure you end up with those people. #principleoftheday