Transcendental Meditation Is Taking Over Wall Street

Around eight years ago, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio introduced Transcendental Meditation to his 735 employees. Dalio had already established a unique, intense culture at Bridgewater that he likes to say is akin to being part of an "intellectual Navy SEALs," and he believed that Transcendental Meditation, or TM, would work as an effective counterbalance. "I did it because it's the greatest gift I could give anyone — it brings about equanimity, creativity, and peace," Dalio told me in an email.