AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Self-Assessment of Grit
Exploring the concept of grit through personal anecdotes, taking a grit test, and banter about grit scores ranging from average to below average. The chapter concludes with an encouragement for listeners to take their own grit score test.
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
Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5
—
Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) Data mining the basketball court
(7:00) Origin of Myers-Briggs Test
(14:30) Formula for Grit
(16:00) Sam takes the Grit Scale Test
(23:00) Cognition Labs, a math nerd's wet dream
(34:00) Be willing to walk backwards
(39:50) Speedrunning: 3 Founders Who Repeated the Playbook
(42:00) Don't explore, exploit
(49:00) $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
—
Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode