Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

they make their decisions based upon who they are,

His device made his employer a fortune. Saul, however, received only a small bonus. Up until this point, Saul was happy in his engineering job. Yet for the first time, he began to question his role. “I would see guys with MBAs making presentations, and they were making much more money than me and getting to run the company, too,” Saul explains. “I

Instead, they focus on one move. Their next bold move. They evaluate which choice, right now, will put them in the strongest possible position to win.

91 percent said that for them personally, it was “someone who is purpose-driven.”

A democratic meritocracy will only function as a positive-sum game of fulfillment if we each feel a strong obligation to help one another, an obligation that must be supported by a social contract that ensures that individuality matters.

Know Your Micro-Motives and Know Your Choices play a role in the dark horse mindset’s gradient ascent process, too. Whenever you make a bold move and choose a new opportunity, you jump to an entirely new mountain with its own unique crags and ridges—and which might present an even higher summit than the last.

it lifted her spirits. It felt right.

The old mindset declares, “Only special people have talent”; the new mindset declares, “Every person has talent.” Both assertions cannot be true.

The goal of all standardization is to maximize the efficiency of a system of production.

What really gets Korinne’s blood pumping is organizing physical space.