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Ray Dalio

25 May, 7 tweets, 2 min read

Many of you have asked me to share my #PrinciplesYou personality type, which I’m happy to do. I’m a Shaper, with strong elements of Inventor and Adventurer. The assessment described me to a tee in much greater detail than I can convey in this post. (1/7)

Being a Shaper means loving to visualize great things and build them out and being willing to wrestle with the obstacles to achieve that visualization. Being an Inventor means that I love to come up with original ideas and designs that never existed before. (2/7)

Being an Adventurer means that I’m excited by going into the unknown and even the risky. Those are my great pulls in life.

The profile also highlights my big “watch out for's.” (3/7)

For example, I'm very low on Detailed and Reliable, which means I tend to be less organized and orderly, and am not meticulous with details. I also can hurt people’s feelings when I’m uncompromising in my push to make my visualizations into realities. (4/7)

Because I learned these things about myself, I have pretty much been able to get what I have been pulled toward without having my weaknesses stand in my way, which I did by working with people who are strong where I am weak. (5/7)

It has brought me great joy to have shown many thousands of people how to do this, which has also taught me that this approach can work for everyone and is why I want to pass it along to people for free. (6/7)

So, if you haven’t taken and/or haven’t had the people closest to you take PrinciplesYou to see what your pulls and obstacles are, what theirs are, and what that means for your relationships, I urge you to do so. Here it is bit.ly/3vzYY13 (7/7)

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