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Elon Musk reveals the moment his son Saxon left an entire sushi restaurant speechless "I was living in L.A., and I took my older boys out for lunch to Sugarfish, which is a very kind of uptight sushi restaurant. In fact, on the menu of the restaurant, it says, do not ask for soy sauce, because the chef has put the right amount of soy sauce." "So, like, extremely strict sushi restaurant. And so the waiter is going around asking everyone what they want and then it comes to Saxon and Saxon says I'll have a cheeseburger." "And the waiter takes a moment to recover because no one ever asked for a cheeseburger at this very strict sushi restaurant. It took him like 30 seconds to realize he'd just been asked for a cheeseburger, because you're not even allowed to ask for soy sauce." "So then when he finally recovered, he said, we don't have cheeseburgers. And Saxon goes at the top of his voice, what? Like, what kind of restaurant doesn't have cheeseburgers? He says, fine, I'll have a hamburger."

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Ray Dalio explains what pain is really telling you and why ignoring it keeps you from winning "Pain plus reflection equals progress. Your best learnings come from the pain. It's a message. Pay attention. Learn how reality works and how to deal with it differently so you have principles for dealing with reality better." "And from that process my company Bridgewater became the largest hedge fund in the world. Extremely successful. Managing how much? 150 billion dollars. 1500 people. 150 billion dollars." "And that's made you a very wealthy man." "And made me a very wealthy man. Which by the way was not my intention. I just wanted to play the game and to have meaningful work and meaningful relationships. That was paramount. But it happened to be the game I played. If you're good at the game you make a lot of money." "And now I'm at a stage in my life where I want to pass things along. I need to pass things along. So hence the books, hence our conversation. And here we are."

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Ray Dalio explains the five forces he says will drive the next global crash and reveals why no country is safe from what is coming "Pain plus reflection equals progress. And from that principle, my company became the largest hedge fund in the world." "I learned that history of things that never happened in my lifetime before were important things to understand in order to predict the future." "Ray Dalio is the legendary billionaire investor who decoded the cycles of human history to predict financial crashes, build the world's largest hedge fund. And now to warn us about what lies ahead." "Are you optimistic about the future of the UK? No. What about the United States? No." "In order to bet on what's going to happen on the global economy, I learned that there's five big forces that create a big cycle. That's repeated through history."

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Ray Dalio says losing his son was worse than losing his entire fortune and reveals what he urges everyone to learn "I lost a son. And I would have rather died. I would have rather lost everything to lose my son. So it's the worst possible thing." "And then to go through that with meditation, with reflection, and so on, was invaluable. And people have their own challenges. But to be able to do it that way, I really urge your audience, I urge you to learn that. That's very helpful."

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Erin Brockovich explains how PG&E hid the truth about a chemical in the water supply and why families may still be paying the price today "They were telling everybody that it was chromium in their water, which is a natural element, and it's good for you. You can find it in your breakfast cereal." "They weren't telling him that it was hexavalent chromium and it was a poison." Theo Von: "Damn."

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Ray Dalio reveals whether he is optimistic about the future of the UK and names the country that is leaving it behind "Are you optimistic about the future of the UK at the moment?" "No. No. Because it has high debt, it has the social internal conflict, it's affected by the geopolitical factors, and in terms of inventiveness it doesn't have the culture that other countries have." "Like the US?" "Yes, the culture and the capital markets to support that at a scale."

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Ray Dalio says most people make the same avoidable mistake when they form an opinion and it costs them everything "I watch people becoming so tied to their own opinions. Like, this is the greatest tragedy of mankind. The greatest tragedy of mankind, because it so easily can be fixed, is holding a strong opinion that is wrong, that you could have made right, better, if you were open to learning more." "If somebody holds a different opinion, it should prompt a curiosity. You know, I don't know. Am I wrong or is they wrong? There's a 50% chance. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. So it should prompt curiosity and an exchange to try to make sure that you're right."

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Ray Dalio reveals the real reading level of the bottom 60% of Americans and warns it is tearing the country apart "About 3 million people in a country of 330 million people are really unbelievably doing great. And you can pick the neighborhoods they're in and what they're doing. And then there's the top 10%, let's say, which is the people around them. And they're really, really doing great in that world." "At the same time, the bottom 60%, 60% of Americans have below a sixth grade reading level." "And that population, in terms of the basics, being productive, you have to be productive and be prosperous. So what you need to have a successful society is to have broad based productivity and prosperity. And that's a problem." "So which America are you looking at and are you watching the war that's happening between these?"

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Ray Dalio explains what the 1982 market crash taught him that no amount of success ever could "1979 and 80, I had calculated that American banks had lent more money to foreign countries that they were going to be able to pay back and that we were going to have a debt crisis. Very controversial point of view." "In August of 1982, Mexico defaulted on its debts. And over the next decade, many other countries did. And it caused bank problems." "However, at that time, I thought things were going to get bad and that was the exact bottom in the stock market, August 1982. So I couldn't have been more wrong." "I lost money for me. I lost money for the clients. I lost money. I was so broke that I had to borrow $4,000 from my dad to help to pay for family bills." "Because I was faced with the choice. What am I going to do? And do I go back to work on Wall Street, get a tie, get on the train and go back to that, which is, again, not in my nature or whatever." "And two things changed me. First of all, I learned what we were just talking about. I learned humility and fear of being wrong and open-mindedness."

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MrBeast says he created an AI version of one of his closest friends and it even copied his exact personality and mannerisms "I just took all the transcripts of like 100 of his YouTube videos and I just put it into Jimny. And I was just like, hey, respond to me based on how this person would and talk to me like this person would." "I know one of Dino's friends his name is Che and I was like would you take a bullet for Che and Dino's like a very analytical guy and like the AI was like well it depends is it in the foot is it in the chest. And it responded exactly how my friend would, like to a T, like with the same mannerisms and everything. I was like this is crazy, like this is absolutely insane." "I would put it where it was on a Discord call and like Dino we would be playing and then I'd ask a question and I'd be like no actually Dino don't say anything. And I'd ask that on .io and it would respond exactly how he would respond in most of these situations. And it was pretty crazy."

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MrBeast explains why VR headsets will create a level of addiction that makes current video games look harmless "I think of like how addicted to video games I was when I was a kid. I mean still to some degree now. But like if it was in a headset and like a completely different world, like oh my gosh. Like my poor mom, like good luck getting me out of that." "She struggled to get me to stop staring at a screen and making Call of Duty YouTube videos and playing Call of Duty when I was younger. And if I was like actually in a headset and all my friends are on it, you know, and then you take it off and now you have freaking homework and like real life stuff." "You went from the most overstimulating, beautiful, different utopia world where everything is amazing and you're with your friends and you're having fun. And then you take it off and you're back in real life, which sucks. That's like a whole different level of addiction than current video games would have." "That's the Matrix, and that's coming."