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So I Learned That The People Who Make The Most Of The Process Of Encountering Reality, Especially The Painful Obstacles, Learn The Most And Get What They Want Faster Than People Who Do Not. ... In Short, I Learned That Being Totally Truthful, Especially About Mistakes And Weaknesses, Led To A Rapid Rate Of Improvement And Movement Toward What I Wanted.

To Have An Idea Meritocracy, One Needs To Do Three Things. First, They Have To Put Their Honest Thoughts On The Table, For Everyone To Look At And Everyone To Work Through. Second, They Need To Have Thoughtful Disagreement, By Which There Are Quality Exchanges, In Which There's Open Mindedness And The Realization That No One Has All The Right Answers. And You Can Work Through That And Get To Better Answers Because Good Collective Decision Making Is Better Than Any Individual Decision Making. And Third, You Have To Have Ways Of Getting Past The Disagreements If They Remain.

He Who Lives By The Crystal Ball Will Eat Shattered Glass.

The More You Think You Know, The More Closed-minded You'll Be.

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.