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The Strange History Behind This $20M/Year Personality Test

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Episode 562: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) get into the economics of personality tests–including the most famous one which is used by 89% of Fortune 100 companies.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) Data mining the basketball court
(7:00) Origin of Myers-Briggs Test
(15:30) Formula for Grit
(17:00) Sam takes the Grit Scale Test
(24:00) Cognition Labs, a math nerd's wet dream
(35:00) Be willing to walk backwards
(40:50) Speedrunning: 3 Founders Who Repeated the Playbook
(43:00) Don't explore, exploit
(50:00) $600M protein bar in 4 years


Links:
• Grit - https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-book/
• Gallup - https://www.gallup.com/
• Lunchclub - https://lunchclub.com
• Cognition - https://www.cognition-labs.com/
• Gold-Medalist Coders article - https://tinyurl.com/tc65a2vc
• David Protein - http://davidprotein.com/


Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth


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