Page 463 - Ray Dalio - Principles

CONCLUSION

As I said at the outset, my goal is to pass along the principles
that worked well for me; what you do with them is up to you.

I of course hope that they will help you visualize your own
audacious goals, navigate through your painful mistakes, have
quality reflections, and come up with good principles of your
own that you will systematically follow to produce outcomes
that vastly exceed your expectations. I hope that they will help

you do these things both individually and when working with
others. And, since your journey and evolution will certainly be
a struggle, I hope that these principles will help you struggle
and evolve well. Perhaps they will even inspire you and others
to put your principles in writing and collectively figure out
what’s best in an idea-meritocratic way. If I could tilt the
world even one degree more in that direction, that would thrill

me.

Along these lines, there is more to come. Because I know
that having tools and protocols is necessary to helping people
convert what they want to do into actually doing it, I will soon
be making the ones we’ve created available to you.

I feel I have now done the best I can to pass along my Life
and Work Principles. Of course, we aren’t done with our

struggles until we die. Since my latest struggle has been to
pass along whatever I have that has been of value, I feel a
certain sense of relief to have gotten these principles out to
you, and a sense of contentment as I end this book and turn my
attention to passing along my economic and investment
principles.