Learning with and from Nature...

We often get hung up on our views of how things should be and then we often might miss out on how they really are. It’s important not to let our biases stand in our way in our objectivity. To get good results, we should be analytical rather than emotional.

Most people call something bad if it is bad for them, or bad for those they empathize with, ignoring the greater good. Typically, people’s conflicting beliefs make them unable to see things through other’s eyes. While we can understand people liking something that helps them and disliking things that hurt them, it does not makes sense to call something good or bad based only how it affects individuals.

To do so would presume that what the individuals want is more important than the good of the whole. To be “good” something must operate consistently with the laws of reality and contribute to the evolution of the whole; that is what is most rewarded.

In looking at what is true for everything, we should believe that Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it is the only thing that is permanent and it drives everything.

Everything from the smallest subatomic particle to the entire galaxy is evolving. While everything apparently dies or disappears in time, the truth is that it all just gets reconfigured in evolving forms. Remember that energy can’t be destroyed – it can only be reconfigured. So the same stuff is continuously falling apart and coalescing in different forms. The force behind that is evolution.

Evolution is good because it is the process of adaptation that generally move things towards improvement. All things such as products, organisations, and human capabilities evolve through time in a similar way. It is simply the process by which things either adapt and improve or die.

Source: "Principles" by Ray Dalio