The World Is Still In Deleveraging.

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.

Success Is Not In Obtaining The Thing. Because There's Always Another Thing. And Then You Look Back On It, And For Me, Through My Evolution, Yes I Have Success By Most Measures - But For Me, When It Comes To The Greatest Joy Of Reward, There's An Emotional Element And There's An Intellectual Element. Emotionally, My Greatest Joy Was The Personal Relationships I've Had. That Was The Greatest Joy. Intellectually, My Satisfaction Was That I Do Feel I've Evolved Well And I'm Doing My Best To Contribute Toward Evolution.

Meditation More Than Anything In My Life Was The Biggest Ingredient Of Whatever Success I've Had.

Do Not Feel Bad About Your Mistakes Or Those Of Others. Love Them! Remember That One: They Are To Be Expected; Two: They're The First And Most Essential Part Of The Learning Process; And Three: Feeling Bad About Them Will Prevent You From Getting Better.

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