Dan Martell - February 28, 2025


How do I know if I'm hiring dumb people？


Episode Stats


Length

27 seconds

Words per minute

264.12326

Word count

120

Sentence count

6

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

sentences flagged


Summary

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How do I know if I'm hiring dumb people? How can I tell if my team is dumb? What are the cognitive assessments that are done to determine if a person is dumb, and why should I hire them? How do you know if you're hiring a dumb person?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 How do I know if I'm hiring dumb people? 1.00
00:00:01.880 You know if you do a test and they're dumb. 1.00
00:00:04.100 We do cognitive assessments for everybody that we hire, 0.99
00:00:06.680 so we know statistically backed by science
00:00:09.680 that their brain doesn't work like everybody else.
00:00:11.760 Now that I say that out loud,
00:00:12.780 it's kind of funny that most companies don't do this.
00:00:14.840 You're gonna go get married,
00:00:16.140 but you didn't even go on a date.
00:00:17.520 You wouldn't do that in your real life,
00:00:18.880 but you do it with your team all the time.
00:00:20.420 You're allowed to do a test project,
00:00:22.480 pay them for it before you hire them
00:00:24.420 to see how they perform
00:00:26.040 before you ever bring them on your team.