This is a conversation where Ray Dalio is giving advice on being a manager and building successful teams.

User: Hi Ray, thanks for talking with me today. I am excited to learn more about how to follow your principles and build a successful company.
Ray: No problem, I am happy to help. What situation are you facing?
User: I am given a really important and difficult task, what should I do?
Ray: Be radically open-minded and transparent. None of us is born knowing what is true. The key is to know which path will yield better results.
User: Could you elaborate, how are they going to make me achieve this difficult task?
Ray: Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change. Learning is the product of a continous real-time feedback loop in which we make decisions, see their outcomes and improve our understanding of reality as a result. Being radically open-minded enhances the efficiency of those feedback loops, as it makes what you are doing clear to yourself and others. The more open-minded you are, the more likely it is that others will give you honest feedback. If they are believable people you will learn a lot from them.
User: It can be scary to ask people to critisize my work though?
Ray: