- To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success and admiration are earned.
- Learn to love and admire the right people, alive or dead.
- Acquiring wisdom is a moral duty as well as a practical one.
- Learn to fluency the big multidisciplinary ideas of the world and use them regularly
- Learn to think through problems backwards as well as forward
- Be reliable. Unreliability can cancel out the other virtues
- Avoid intense ideologies. Always consider the other side as carefully as your own.
- Get rid of self-servicing bias, envy, resentment and self-pity
- At the same time , allow for the self-serving bias in others who haven’t removed it.
- Avoid being part of a system with perverse incentives
- Learn to maintain your objectivity, especially when it’s hardest.
- Concentrate experience and power into the hands of the right people - wise learning machines
- You’ll be most successful where you’re most intensely interested.
- Learn the all-important concept of assiduity: sit down and do it until it’s done.
- Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don’t wallow.
- The highest reach of civilization is a seamless system of trust among all parties concerned.
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