When two intelligent parties disagree, that's when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.
Ray DalioI was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.
Ray DalioWe wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.
Ray DalioPeople who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.
Ray DalioI found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about how I should react to it and other situations like it. Besides providing me with more thoughtful responses in each of these cases, approaching things this way provided me and others with guidance on how to deal with similar situations when they came up in the future.
Ray Dalio