Be a learning machine. Have action bias.

Life posture. Improvise, adapt, overcome.

Be ruthless about how and who you spend your time with

You are the 5 monkeys you interact with most.

Embrace reality and deal with it.

Right from Dalio. A good one.

Flow like water.

Reframe, invert, seek different perspective. Don't just go through, go under, go around. Subvert. Crash. Flow.

Know your weaknesses.

Another stolen right from Dalio.

Learn outstanding judgement.

Don’t overweight 1st order consequences relative to second and third order consequences. Your ego and your blindspots are your two biggest deterrents in exercising high quality judgment.

Learn what excellence looks like. Don't tolerate anything else.

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Life is a game of inches.

You are always 1 or 2 deviations from being at your best or your worst. One or two habits. Provided your the right side of things, those 1 or 2 things compound.

Perception is a force multiplier for execution.

If everything is a fight, you will always find war. If everything is an effort you will always find work. If you want the problem to be difficult it shall become so. Perception precedes and informs action.

Ruthlessly measure outcomes objectively.

Especially with yourself.

Take radical accountability for the design and outcomes of your life.

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The only unacceptable failures are complete ruin, lack of trying, not learning from a previous attempt, and lack of preparation.

Almost everything else is acceptable.

Understand that people are wired differently.

Another Dalio but it hits home. I've learned the hard way how true this is especially when it comes to values.