Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.

Treat your life like a game.

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

Almost everything is like a machine.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.