The $20 Million/Year Personality Quiz 89% Of Fortune 100s Swear By

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

March 15, 2024

Duration

54m

Channel

My First Million

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Use Sam's secret growth sauce: generate more traffic with HubSpot's Free Landing Page Builder 🔥 https://clickhubspot.com/77f 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. Want to talk to Shaan? Text “hi” to 650-334-0790 — 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/

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
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— 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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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Shaan Puri

  host

  Co-host of the business podcast My First Million and entrepreneur/investor.

• Sam Parr

  host

  Co-host of My First Million and founder of Hampton (joinhampton.com).

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of My First Million, featuring Shaan Puri and Sam Parr, The $20 Million/Year Personality Quiz 89% Of Fortune 100s Swear By explores Measuring mindset: why tests, grit, and repeatable playbooks fascinate founders Shaan recounts a Phoenix Suns courtside visit that unexpectedly turns into a deep dive on what sports teams can measure—and what they still can’t—about player mindset.

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