Page 134 - Ray Dalio - Principles

purpose of everything else is to evolve and to contribute to
evolution in some small way. I didn’t think about that at the
start; I just went after the things I wanted. But along the way I

evolved, and now I am sharing these principles with you to
help you evolve too. I realized that passing on knowledge is
like passing on DNA—it is more important than the
individual, because it lives way beyond the individual’s life.
This is my attempt to help you succeed by passing along to
you what I learned about how to struggle well—or, at the very
least, to help you get the most out of each unit of effort you

put in.