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0:00 how do you find out about yourself like 0:01 what are some tools and kind of 0:03 methodologies that you use because it 0:04 seems like this is kind of one of the 0:05 highest and best uses of your time right 0:07 figuring out like what you're good at 0:09 what you're passionate about like that's 0:10 a that's a good good question JD there's 0:13 a number of ways to identify it looking 0:16 at personality inventories is one way 0:18 making sure that you're able to 0:20 elucidate what things what skills and 0:23 what weaknesses you have and you know an 0:25 easy way to assess that would just be 0:27 finding a friend or finding someone that 0:29 you think is going to be fairly unbiased 0:32 in their assessment of you and just be 0:34 like hey you know what do you think of 0:35 it's X Y and Z that's that's one way to 0:38 do it you know one thing that blew my 0:40 mind was one of our advisors actually 0:42 told us about something called 0:43 principles U it's a personality test by 0:45 Ray dalio and he's a kind of founder of 0:47 Bridgewater and he was you know famous 0:49 for effectively being able to find and 0:51 build teams out that were very high 0:53 performing and the principles you test 0:55 the doctor we have the entire team take 0:57 it and it was scary how insightful and 1:00 super fascinating the clarity you get 1:02 from taking the simple test it's like 1:04 it's 10 minutes and you literally learn 1:06 everything you need to know about like 1:07 how you think how you communicate with 1:08 others your skill sets it was scary how 1:11 close it was right Dr Anna with our team 1:13 and we we've been using this actually on 1:16 multiple levels right to manage to kind 1:19 of train but also just to learn more 1:20 about ourselves right so it's a it's a 1:23 it's a double click on the mayor's Brig 1:25 and the certain finders and other things 1:27 um that we've seen so phenomenal yeah 1:29 it's a really powerful tool and it gives 1:32 you more Greener and more data driven 1:34 assessment of who you are and if you 1:37 don't have like a core group of 1:39 individuals that know you well this 1:41 would be a good start to kind of make 1:43 you understand like you know some of the 1:45 things that you gravity of sports and 1:46 when things just shy away from 1:49 developed and frankly in many ways 1:52 sometimes you know some of your 1:54 weaknesses and I personally am of the 1:57 opinion that you should try to look at 1:59 your weaknesses as well because that's 2:01 going to help balance your personality 2:03 right if you are somewhat introspective 2:06 at Baseline you know maybe find ways to 2:10 unprove that a bit because there are a 2:11 lot of opportunities or moves out in 2:13 life if you are holding set one area