Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 259.

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his

talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Thomas O'Grady

endured bias and ridicule from teachers, counselors, and other students, and was almost fast-track to the

slow lane, simply because he did not look like

everybody else. Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Dr. Thomas O'Grady. Welcome,

Thomas. Thank you. Very welcome to you too. Thank you very much, Don. Good. Thomas, are you using

your talents doing work that you love? Yes, I am, and no, I'm not. Yes and no.

All right. Well, hold that thought because we want to hear the whole story. Dr. Thomas O'Grady's story is both unusual, and the successes he's had in a range of fields, has given him the ability to help businesses and people ranging from Lee I. Koka to Alan Greenspan and Japanese and European companies.

With a PhD in mathematical and statistical economics from Berkeley and three languages,

including English, he has appeared in all major media. And his current book, The Mechanics

for Breakthrough Success, shares that path for others. So Thomas, that's a nice summary of your career

to date. But tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged and excited, if you will.

Well, a couple of things. One, of course, is the podcast that I have, life unsettled. It stays up

and usually in the top 10. I think this week it was number six in what's hot in business.

And that's been very satisfying

and a lot of comments back from helping people. But also the book, which I just finished,

and there's only a couple of things, you know, touches here and there on things like adding

the title page and stuff like that, but it's done. My editor loves it. He's been using it actually

for something that he uses actually to

help his kids. He's got twin teens and they're just starting college and he's been using it,

which was kind of a great thing to hear. Yeah. And then I just found out this morning that

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