Dan Martell - August 22, 2025


Don't hire dumb people

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Episode Stats


Length

25 seconds

Words per minute

260.05

Word count

110

Sentence count

6

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about why you should be allowed to do a cognitive assessment on your employees before you hire them, and why it's a good idea to do so before you ever bring them on your team.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You know if you do a test and they're dumb. 0.99
00:00:02.240 We do cognitive assessments for everybody we hire, 0.99
00:00:04.800 so we know statistically backed by science
00:00:07.800 that their brain doesn't work like everybody else.
00:00:09.900 Now that I say that out loud,
00:00:10.940 it's kind of funny that most companies don't do this.
00:00:13.000 You're gonna go get married,
00:00:14.240 but you didn't even go on a date.
00:00:15.660 You wouldn't do that in your real life,
00:00:17.000 but you do it with your team all the time.
00:00:18.540 You're allowed to do a test project,
00:00:20.600 pay them for it before you hire them
00:00:22.520 to see how they perform
00:00:24.160 before you ever bring them on your team.