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the moment nothing to lose, became something to gain.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

To me, there are three phases in life. The first is when you are dependent on others and learning, the second is when you are working and others become dependent on you, and the third is when you have passed everything along and you're free to live and free to die. Most everyone experiences these phases, and there are roughly five-year transition periods between them. I’m in my transition period from the second phase to the third phase (in which my primary goal that brings me joy is to pass along my what I learned), and you are in your transition from your first phase to your second phase so it’s natural that I want to pass along to you the principles that I found most valuable. To help you, I am sharing two free gifts that I believe will be invaluable for you, the Life Journey Exercise for Graduates and the 20 minute YouTube animated video Principles for Success. You can get these in my free Principles in Action app here: https://t.co/hV3DM4rE79 or if you want to just watch the 20 minute video you can get it here: https://t.co/FOwTjmbHmH

Also, if you want to learn more about yourself—i.e., what your nature is like which will determine the types of things that you are naturally inclined to do—you can get that here: https://t.co/KHNHy6xJF7 Having such perspectives on what you’re like rather than naively walking into your new phase in life will do you a world of good. And if you want to stay in touch, sign up: https://t.co/OZYiFAXDfz to receive my periodic thinking about what's going on in the world and the principles I'm reflecting on to deal with it.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Most people see the things around them without considering the forces that created them. In most cases those forces were specific people with specific qualities who worked in specific ways. Change the people and you change how things develop; replace creators with noncreators and you stop having creations.

People tend to personify organizations ("Apple is a creative company") while mistakenly depersonalizing their results, thus losing sight of who did what to produce them. That's misguided because companies don't make decisions--people do.

So who are the people in your organization behind the results and culture that make it special? Think about who they are and how they work together to make it what it is. #principleoftheday