The Economy Is Like A Machine.

Success Is Achieved By People Who Deeply Understand Reality And Know How To Use It To Get What They Want. The Converse Is Also True: Idealists Who Are Not Well-grounded In Reality Create Problems, Not Progress.

Meditation Helps You Stay In A Calm, Clear-headed State So That When Challenges Come At You, You Can Deal With Them Like A Ninja - In A Calm Thoughtful Way. When You're Centered, Your Emotions Are Not Hijacking You.

I Learned That Everyone Makes Mistakes And Has Weaknesses And That One Of The Most Important Things That Differentiates People Is Their Approach To Handling Them. I Learned That There Is An Incredible Beauty To Mistakes, Because Embedded In Each Mistake Is A Puzzle, And A Gem That I Could Get If I Solved It, I.e. A Principle That I Could Use To Reduce My Mistakes In The Future.

Imagine If You Had Baseball Cards That Showed All The Performance Stats For Your People: Batting Averages, Home Runs, Errors, Eras, Win/loss Records. You Could See What They Did Well And Poorly And Call On The Right People To Play The Right Positions In A Very Transparent Way.

In Order To Get Past Disagreements, You Just Can't Have One Person With Power Decide. In Other Words, So Just Because I'm A Boss, It Would Be Terrible If I Then Said, "okay, We're Gonna Go Do This." That's Why, After That Thoughtful Disagreement, There Has To Be A Process Of An Idea Meritocracy. That Means Okay, Now You Have To Vote, Not That The Decision Resides With Power. And Then You Vote And Move Beyond It.