Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

You discern your strengths not through introspection, but through action.

there were severe limits on how many students a brick-and-mortar institution could physically accommodate.

There’s only a best strategy for you.

I needed to find some way to figure out who I was, what I really wanted to do with the rest of my life.”

Second, identify the feelings that emerge as you reflexively judge someone. How do you know when you are on the scent of a micro-motive? When you have a vivid reaction. It doesn’t matter whether it’s positive or negative, celebratory or condemnatory, as long as the feeling is pronounced. Remember, you’re trying to get in touch with your authentic e

Only by understanding the details of your interests and desires can you recognize and embrace opportunities that suit your authentic self.

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

Why would anyone agree to such self-negating terms? Because on the face of it, the Standardization Covenant seems both egalitarian and fair—especially compared to what came before. In the nineteenth century, genuine opportunity was limited to those privileged with the right family, right ethnicity, right religion, right gender, or right bank accoun