Focus more on making the pie bigger than on exactly how to slice it - Ray Dalio

Remember that people are built very differently and that different ways of seeing and thinking make people suitable for different jobs.

Making a handful of good uncorrelated bets that are balanced and leveraged well is the surest way of having a lot of upside without being exposed to unacceptable downside.

As David Eagleman describes it in his wonderful book Incognito: Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia — hundreds of billions of them. Each one of them is as complex as a city. . . . The cells [neurons] are connected in a network of such staggering complexity that it bankrupts human language and necessitates new strains of mathematics. A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given billions of neurons, this means that there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.