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Even with its imperfections, our evidence-based approach to learning about people, guiding them, and sorting them is much fairer and more effective than the arbitrary and subjective management systems that most organizations still rely on. I believe that the forces of evolution will push most organizations toward systems that combine human and computer intelligence to program principles into algorithms that substantially improve decision-making.
— Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
Those with more creativity invent ways to do things more effectively (for instance by finding good people, good technologies, and/or good designs). Those with more character are better able to wrestle with their challenges and demands. And those with more wisdom can maintain their equanimity by going to the higher level and looking down on themselves and their challenges to properly prioritize, realistically design, and make sensible choices.
— Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
The homogeneity principle states that the outputs of a system are always directly proportional to the input. In other words, twice as much in results in twice as much out. This principle, however, can’t predict the effect of the previous states of the system on the outputs. Often previous states have a significant effect on present or future conditions. In other words, linearity can’t capture feedback; inputs and outputs come and go without any connection between them.
Systems operating in space and time will inevitably be affected by feedback loops from their environment as every action the system takes will drive some sort of consequence. This consequence will feed back to the future state of the system that in return will elicit a reaction from the system. Therefore, as soon as we position our system into the real world, things unavoidably turn nonlinear. The more feedback loops we capture and include in our system mapping model, the more realistic of a picture we get about reality — and the more nonlinear the world becomes.
— The Systems Thinker – Dynamic Systems: Make Better Decisions and Find Lasting Solutions Using Scientific Analysis by Albert Rutherford
If all of the goals you set for yourself run counter to your own passions “…” question the goals you have set in the first place. Satisfaction is not found in the achievement of goals, but in their pursuit, so many of the steps along the way to your goals should be enjoyable. The most proficient and prolific artists, authors, and architects all achieved what they did because they found a way to capitalize on what they already loved. Set goals that fit who you are, what you enjoy, and what you value.
— Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture by Ryan A. Bush
When we combine the behavioral realm with the cognitive and emotional realms, the full picture of self-mastery comes into view. These domains represent the ability to become the self of your highest vision. To resist the many forces which would lead you away from it. Self-mastery represents the degree to which you are capable of aligning with your own ideals. In other words, it is your ability to become a great individual and live a great life – by your own standards. The capacities found in the various forms of self-mastery like wisdom, equanimity, and self-control are not merely important virtues. They are the prerequisite, second-order virtues that enable all other strengths to emerge.
— Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture by Ryan A. Bush
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