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Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine.
If you can recognize the differences between those roles and that it is much more important that you are a good designer/manager of your life than a good worker in it, you will be on the right path.
To be successful, the “designer/manager you”...

Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine.

To be successful, the “designer/manager you” has to be objective about what the “worker you” is really like, not believing in him more than he deserves, or putting him in jobs he shouldn’t be in.

If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential.

Once we get the things we are striving for, we rarely remain satisfied with them. The 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 you those around us.

“What I have seen is that the happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it.”
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Ray Dalio