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Todd Rose: ...prioritizing personal fulfillment is the most reliable path to success and happiness

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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


(This is a reposted episode that originally aired in October 2018).


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Transcript

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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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