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•reality is a perpetual motion machine, in which causes become effects that become causes of new effects

•Most people fight seeing what’s true when it’s not what they want it to be.

•Most people call something bad if it is bad for them or bad for those they empathize with, ignoring the greater good.

•fail, learn, and improve quickly

•all species will either go extinct or evolve into other species

•Material things are just the bait. Chasing after them forces us to evolve, and it is the evolution and not the rewards themselves that matters to us and to those around us. 

•It is a fundamental law of nature that in order to gain strength one has to push one’s limits

•be the designer of your machine and not someone within your machine

•successful people look objectively at what they are like—their strengths and weaknesses

•Asking others who are strong in areas where you are weak to help you is a great skill that you should develop no matter what

•people who obsess over a $1,200 pair of shoes or a fancy car are very rarely happy because they don’t know what it is that they really want

•Don’t mistake a cause of a problem with the real problem

•make sure you are investing them in exploring the problems that, if fixed, will yield you the biggest returns. But at the same time, make sure you spend enough time with the small problems to make sure they’re not symptoms of larger ones

•Proximatecausesaretypically theactions(or lackof actions) that lead to problems, so they are described with verbs (I missed the train because I didn’t check the train schedule). Root causes run much deeper and they are typically described with adjectives (I didn’t check the train schedule because I am forgetful). You can only truly solve your problems by removing their root causes, and to do that, you must distinguish the symptoms from the disease.

•Humility can be even more valuable than having good mental maps if it leads you to seekout better answers than you could come up with on your own. 

•The person who is strong and yet can ask for help will always beat out the person who doesn’t have both

•once you gain humility that will allow you to get help from others, you’ll see that there’s virtually nothing you can’t accomplish

•To be radically open-minded, you need to be so open to the possibility that you could be wrong that you encourage others to tell you so

•you’re looking for the best answer, not simply the best answer that you can come up with yourself

•The life that you will live is most simply the result of habits you develop

•creative genius often exists at the edge of insanity

•The more extreme a personal quality is, the more extreme the potential good or bad outcomes it is likely to produce

•someone’s spirituality is due to person’s physiological unique brain mechanics rather than something coming from above

•INTJ: introverted (likes to focus on ideas, memories and experiences, not people, think privately), intuitive (seeing the big picture, goals, not details or tasks), thinking (making logical decisions, considering facts, not emotions and interpersonal harmony), judging (set the plan and make it happen, not see possibilities and adapt to them)

•Integrity means “one” or “whole.” People who are one way on the inside and another way on the outside—lack integrity. They present their view as something other than it is to avoid conflict, or achieve some short-term goal). Such people often lose touch with their own values.

•Managers should not talk about people who work for them if they are not in the room. If someone is not present at a meeting where something relevant to them is discussed, we always make sure to send them a recording

•Being considerate means allowing other people to mostly do what they want, so long as it is consistent with our principles

•people tend to pick people like themselves, so choose interviewers who can identify what you are looking for. If you’re looking for a visionary, pick a visionary to do the interview

•Beware of group-think: The fact that no one seems concerned doesn’t mean nothing is wrong