Todd Rose: ...prioritizing personal fulfillment is the most reliable path to success and happiness
Nobody Told Me!
Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Hear what makes some people achieve impressive success, even though no one thought they would. Our guest is Todd Rose, co-author of the book, “Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment”. Todd is the co-founder and president of Populace, a think tank committed to ensuring that all people have the opportunity to pursue fulfilling lives in a thriving society. His website is www.toddrose.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Laura Owens. Dark Horse is a term for those who triumph against the odds, |
| 0:19.8 | for the winners that nobody saw coming and dark |
| 0:22.7 | horse is the very appropriate title of the new book by harvard researcher todd rose which looks at men and women |
| 0:28.9 | who've achieved impressive success even though nobody saw them coming todd joins us now to share his insights |
| 0:35.0 | into why the standard formula for success may not be the best formula for you. |
| 0:40.5 | Todd, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:42.7 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 0:43.8 | Tell us more about where the term dark horse came from. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, so it's an old term, right? |
| 0:50.2 | It came from actually back in an actual horse race where, you know, a horse no one knew, |
| 0:55.3 | kind of burst forward and won. But, you know, for most of the time, we've used it to describe |
| 1:00.6 | people, as you said in the open, that people were successful that nobody saw coming. |
| 1:05.6 | And we were just interested in these folks and what, if anything, they might teach us |
| 1:09.9 | about how we live lives of success |
| 1:11.7 | ourselves and you have a very different background yourself you dropped out of high school and |
| 1:16.6 | had two kids before the age of 20 and i believe you were on welfare as well yet you've created this |
| 1:21.7 | fulfilling meaningful enviable life by taking your own road can you talk to us about how you did this? Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, |
| 1:30.9 | as you said, yeah, I'm a Harvard professor now, but, you know, I'm a high school dropout. And it's even |
| 1:35.5 | kind of worse, right? Like, so I, when I failed out, I had a 0.9 GPA. So, like, wow. |
| 1:41.9 | You're going to try really hard to do that. |
| 1:45.3 | And yeah, it's like I was working a string of minimum wage jobs and relying on welfare. |
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