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I had the opportunity to read the book called Principles: Life and Work written by Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. In this book, he wrote about his concept of work and life until he achieved his success and became famous now. This book contains many interesting ideas. In today's article, I would like to present an idea that I feel particularly pleased. It is the idea about encountering important situations requiring decision-making due to our weaknesses.
In the Principles Book, Ray Dalio said that, in real life, we all have to face the decision requiring us to overcome our weaknesses. Ray said that there were 5 important decisions that we must make in order to overcome our weaknesses that we need to correct and continue developing. In this case, I would like to refer to the decisions in Item 3, 2 and 5, which I like the most. In Item 3, Ray said that, "Don't overweight first-order consequences relative to second- and third-order ones ". This sentence means that we should not pay too much attention to the initial results when compared to other consequential results. However, in real working life, what we have decided will cause more than one consequence. Therefore, we should weigh and consider the results calmly and accurately so that we can see a true overview of the outcomes of each decision thoroughly and are not biased with any positive or negative results too much.
As for Item 2, Ray said, "Don’t worry about looking good-worry instead of achieving your goals”. It means that we shouldn't be worried about the negative image, but we should pay more attention to achieving our own goals This is due to the nature of working, especially those who are smart and very successful, tend to have high self-confidence. Many times when these people work, they are always worried about their image and think about what should be done to make them look good in other people's eyes rather than paying attention to their own working goals. To be a smart, high-educated and successful person will inevitably make us easily being trapped by the image. Sometimes it deviates us from the true working goal and affects the success of future works.
