There is a little known secret that 75-year-old billionaire Ray Dalio credits for his success: Transcendental meditation.
Dalio is best known for the establishment of Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and its construction in The world's largest protection fundwith 97.2 billion dollars in asset since 2023. It is worth over $ 16 billion in writing time, according to Bloomberg Billionaire Indexwith much of his wealth coming from $ 6.65 billion of his shares in Bridgewater.
“The best advice I could give anyone, I think, it would be to meditate, and that is because it gives you a calm and draw,” Dalio told cnbc At the beginning of this week. “At that success I have had in life has been more because of my meditation than anything else.”
Dalio unfolded in 2021 In the output he practices transcendental meditation, which involves repetition of a mantra or a short sound or word for a certain time, for twenty minutes, twice a day. The goal is to concentrate the mind and help the practitioner achieve a state of deep relaxation.
Dalio says every 20-minute meditation hearing feels like a “20-minute vacation” that calms it and helps him make better decisions. He comes up with creative ideas during his sessions, coming up with a clearer mind.
Ray Dalio. Photo by DIA DIASUPIL/GETTY IMAGES
INVESTIGATION It has shown that transcendental meditation can reduce the symptoms of trauma and improve mental health. A March 2020 Study Published in the magazine “Brain and Cognition” showed that participants practicing transcendental meditation felt less depression, anxiety and stress.
Dalio initially began to meditate In 1968seven years before they founded Bridgewater Associates. He was inspired by the beatles, who Popular the practice In 1967. Dalio held practice for the next five decades of growing the defense fund before it was withdrawn as co-core in 2017. Under his leadership, Bridgewater founded a management style called “radical transparency“which means that all meetings are registered and available to the whole organization and encouraged the constructive criticism of colleagues.
Dalio is not the only billionaire to swear for meditation. Virgin Group founder Richard Branson meditated 30,000 meters in the air in The first meditation flight to the world with Virgin Australia in 2018. In the same year, billionaire presented A meditation, sleep and lying room in the Virgin office in London.
Twitter co -founder Jack Dorsey shared in a February 2025 episode From the podcast “in good company” he used to go to a 10-day withdrawal of silent meditation every year for five years before the pandemia. In these withdrawals, he would meditate from 4am to 9 in the afternoon and stop talking completely.