To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.
Ray DalioPrinciples are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.
Ray DalioI could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
Ray DalioLook at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
Ray Dalio