#547: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The standard route to success in modern life goes as follows: work hard in high school, score high on your SAT, get into a good college, do well in your classes, get a good job. For some people, that path works, but for a lot of people, it leaves them disengaged and frustrated because it doesn't actually lead to a life of fulfillment. My guest today has spent his academic career studying individuals who have bucked the standard formula for achievement and found success on their own terms. His name is Todd Rose. He's a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the co-author of the book Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment. We begin our conversation discussing what Todd calls the "Standardization Covenant," including how it developed to serve institutions rather than individuals and why following the standard path often leads to frustration. Todd then explains his idea of an alternative "Dark Horse Covenant" and what it looks like theoretically and in the lives of those who've followed it. He then walks us through the steps that dark horses follow to find success and fulfillment on their own terms, including focusing on "micromotives" to figure out where you fit, making decisive choices, creating your own options, and trying new strategies until you find something that works. We end our conversation with how Todd would like to see the Dark Horse dynamic incorporated into our educational system. Get the show notes at aom.is/darkhorse.

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	Bret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast, the standard
0:11.7	route to success in modern life goes as follows.
0:14.6	More harden high school, score high on your SAT, get into a good college, do well in your
0:18.5	classes, get a good job.
0:20.1	For some people, that path works, but for a lot of people, it leaves them disengage and
0:23.6	frustrated because it doesn't actually lead to a life of fulfillment.
0:26.9	My guest day has spent his academic career studying individuals who have booked the standard
0:30.2	formula for achievement and found success on their own terms.
0:33.0	His name is Todd Rose, he's a professor of at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
0:36.7	and the co-author of the book, Dark Horse Achieving Success to the Pursuit of Fulfillment.
0:40.6	He began our conversation discussing what Todd calls the standardization covenant, including
0:44.5	how it developed to serve institutions rather than individuals, and why following the standard
0:48.3	path often leads to frustration.
0:49.9	Todd then explains his idea of an alternative, Dark Horse Covenant, and what it looks like theoretically
0:54.2	and in the lives of those who followed it.
0:56.1	He then walks us through the steps that Dark Horse follows to find success and fulfillment
0:59.6	on their own terms, including focusing on micromotives to figure out where you fit, making
1:03.6	decisive choices, creating your own options, and trying new strategies until you find something
1:07.8	that works.
1:08.8	We in our conversation with how Todd would like to see the Dark Horse dynamic incorporated
1:12.1	into our educational system.
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