Billionaire Ray Dalio and Adam Grant Just Created a Free Personality Assessment Tool to Improve Your Business–and Your Relationships

Billionaire Ray Dalio and Adam Grant Just Created a Free Personality Assessment Tool to Improve Your Business–and Your Relationships

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Why Ray Dalio Thinks Getting to Know Yourself Better Is Key to Business Success

The billionaire businessman, along with Adam Grant, just launched a new free personality assessment tool to put that hunch to the test.

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I've probably taken at least a dozen personality assessments. Some told me what kind of animal I was. (In one I was a shark, another a turtle. Not sure how that happened.) Another said I was conscientiously influential. Another said I was an ENTJ. (But after a couple decades of not leading people and only leading myself, I've definitely become an "I.") 

Most were interesting. Some sparked a few moments of, "Hmm..."

Yet none were particularly practical, especially since the people I worked for tended to focus on ways I could benefit from changing aspects of my personality. Like becoming less conflict-averse. Or more of a (professional) risk taker. Or letting my emotions guide more of my decisions. To be, in retrospect, more like them.

Which is obviously a problem.  I could definitely learn to do certain things differently. But becoming a person who naturally did those things? Unlikely.

Add it all up, and while taking personality assessments was kind of fun, I didn't get much out of them.

Then I took the free  PrinciplesYou personality assessment,