376: How to Become the Success Nobody Saw Coming: Research Insights into “Dark Horses” from Harvard’s Todd Rose

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🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Bestselling author and Harvard professor Todd Rose dissects how Dark Horses became successful and how you can apply their secret to live a reliably fulfilling career and live You'll Learn: The implications of pursuing personal fulfillment vs. power, wealth, or prestige The most important step to understanding what fulfills you Why fulfillment isn’t just for the rich About Todd: Todd Rose was a high school dropout with D- grades and a GPA of 0.9. He caused a ruckus in class and was suspended several times. He married his teenage girlfriend and by the age of 21, was trying to support a wife and two sons on welfare and minimum wage jobs. In less than a decade, Rose was able to turn his life around from a dead-end factory job to the most influential spheres of American academia. Today he’s the director of the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and cofounder of Populace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming how we learn, work, and live. His previous book, The End of Average, was a best seller and his talks have been featured at TedX, the Aspen Ideas Festival, SXSW, Google, Microsoft, Pixar, Costco, JP Morgan, Chevron, and Colin Powell’s America’s Promise. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep376 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:17.0	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode
0:22.0	376 with Todd Rose. We are talking about
0:24.8	dark horses, not the song from Katie Perry.
0:28.4	Are you ready for a perfect storm? That's put it in my head a lot as I've been prepping this episode, but no, we're
0:33.8	not talking about that, but rather people who were super successful that nobody saw it coming.
0:37.8	It was a surprise like, well, where did they come from? And turns out there are some patterns,
0:42.0	the principles that they followed and apply that we can do the same.
0:45.6	And we have a master researcher from Harvard, Todd Rose, who's put together the picture
0:50.9	associated with it, so I'm excited to share this conversation with you.
0:54.3	You'll learn one the implications of pursuing personal fulfillment versus power, wealth, or
0:58.6	prestige.
0:59.6	Two, the most important step to understanding what fulfills you and three why
1:03.4	fulfillment isn't just for the rich. So if you want to take a look at the show notes or
1:07.4	the transcript or the links to items we've referenced you'll find it on over at
1:10.4	awesome at your job. com slash F 376.
1:14.0	Now here's Todd's story.
1:15.2	Todd Rose was a high school dropout with D minus grades and a GPA of 0.9.
1:20.3	He caused a ruckus in class and was suspended multiple times.
1:23.0	He married his teenage girlfriend and by the age of 21 was trying to support a wife and two sons on welfare and minimum wage jobs.
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