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

(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

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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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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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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

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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

Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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We Tested Our Grit (And Were Humbled Immediately)