Ray Dalio (billionaire)

[Hello from Russia]

What's your opinion on him? Stage yellow entrepreneur or stage orange investment broker turned green?

I found his book "Principles" fascinating and very yellow at its core.

A good video on him:

 

Edited September 12, 2020 by Hello from Russia

[Thewritersunion]

I don’t know if you of the term “Spiral Invasion” yet, but what it means is this: someone gains power in one stage and tries to claim they are an above stage. 
 

Ray is mainly Stage Orange person trying to call himself Green/Yellow. This is false. A Green person and a Yellow person would do something much different than this. 

[Loving Radiance]

@Thewritersunion So, is Spiral Invasion also applicable to Trump?

Edited September 12, 2020 by Loving Radiance

[Thewritersunion]

@Loving Radiance yes 

[Hello from Russia]

Well, his thinking and the way he runs his organization look very yellow'ish. It doesn't seem he has some agenda just to boast

[Thewritersunion]

@Hello from Russia a yellow business is typically a socialist built company where the workers get to vote on 90+% of things. 

[Hello from Russia]

6 minutes ago, Thewritersunion said:

@Hello from Russia a yellow business is typically a socialist built company where the workers get to vote on 90+% of things. 

He has a very interesting flat hierarchy in his organization. It has a lot of socialism in it but he he built on top of that, he speaks about it in the video, very interesting stuff

[Flyboy]

7 hours ago, Thewritersunion said:

I don’t know if you of the term “Spiral Invasion” yet, but what it means is this: someone gains power in one stage and tries to claim they are an above stage. 
 

Ray is mainly Stage Orange person trying to call himself Green/Yellow. This is false. A Green person and a Yellow person would do something much different than this. 

While that may be true in some cases, I totally disagree that Dalio is stage Orange.  If you read his book Principles (which is excellent), you will find his values go well beyond capitalism and money and attainment.  He deeply cares about family, relationships, happiness, balance, and optimizing life.  He is literally one of the greatest systems thinkers in the entire business world.  While I do think he is limited by a mostly rationalist/materialist worldview, he otherwise embodies the traits of Yellow far more than lower stages.

[Jacob Morres]

11 hours ago, Thewritersunion said:

Ray is mainly Stage Orange person trying to call himself Green/Yellow

need to disagree. blue/orange conflict with yellow

 

Edited September 13, 2020 by Jacob Morres

[JosephKnecht]

20 hours ago, Hello from Russia said:

What's your opinion on him? Stage yellow entrepreneur or stage orange investment broker turned green?

He is one of the few investors who think metaphysically about achieving success. 

In general, he is a good systemic thinker and is able to analyze things from multiple perspectives.

Most of his success comes from meditation which he has been practicing for decades.

I didn't enjoy Principles, because he outlines his "principles" for success without elaborating what success actually is. Success is not being a billionaire, but something else.  

In retrospect, he is one of the main reasons why Capitalism will fall apart sooner rather than later.

 

[Hello from Russia]

2 hours ago, JosephKnecht said:

He is one of the few investors who think metaphysically about achieving success. 

In general, he is a good systemic thinker and is able to analyze things from multiple perspectives.

Most of his success comes from meditation which he has been practicing for decades.

I didn't enjoy Principles, because he outlines his "principles" for success without elaborating what success actually is. Success is not being a billionaire, but something else.  

In retrospect, he is one of the main reasons why Capitalism will fall apart sooner rather than later.

 

Thank you for your opinion

I think in the book he meant any type of success and success as an abstract thing in which the content of what you want to actually be successful at doesn't matter. Peter Ralston speaks about it in similar ways, which is why I love him so much. He speaks about general principles of being "effective" which can be applied to anything be it a business, a relationship or truth-seeking