The best way to make great decisions is to know how to triangulate with other, more knowledgeable people. - Ray Dalio

Since life brings both ups and downs, struggling well doesn’t just make your ups better; it makes your downs less bad.

Seek out the smartest people who disagreed with me so I could try to understand their reasoning. 2. Know when not to have an opinion. 3. Develop, test, and systemize timeless and universal principles. 4. Balance risks in ways that keep the big upside while reducing the downside.

Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking.