Dalio practices Transcendental Meditation twice a day and considers it an essential part of maintaining the emotional and cognitive state necessary for high-performance decision-making.

In 2007, Bridgewater was up 28% (or similar strong positive return) during the worst year of the financial crisis, demonstrating superior performance during a major downturn.

The interviewer positions himself as neither a journalist nor someone in a traditional journalism role, but rather someone who has taken on the life of being an interviewer despite having a day job running a private equity firm.