Mistakes will cause you pain, but you shouldn’t try to shield yourself or others from it. Pain...

Mistakes will cause you pain, but you shouldn’t try to shield yourself or others from it. Pain is a message that something is wrong and it’s an effective teacher that one shouldn’t do that wrong thing again.

Ray Dalio

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Ray Dalio

American businessman

August 8th, 1949