Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

When you engage in activities that are congruent with your true motives, your journey will be compelling and satisfying. If you misjudge or ignore your motives, your progress will be plodding and dreary—or you may abandon the road altogether.

instead of focusing on training techniques or the acquisition of new skills, they described choosing opportunities that fit their truest self. Even in the face of all the mundane struggles of everyday life, such as bills, babies, family tragedies, and economic downturns, they strived for authenticity. For a sense that their individuality mattered.

It should come as no surprise that fulfillment appears nowhere in the Standard Formula. Fulfillment depends on individuality, and individuality was expunged from the straight path at the very onset of the Age of Standardization.

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

But something about the idea of making a suit appealed to a deep-rooted yet barely unacknowledged yearning inside him.

“When you see you can build a successful multimillion-dollar campaign, it doesn’t seem that hard to take five grand and start an organizing business.”

American industrialist Frederick Taylor, realized that in a system of factory production where machines were expensive and heavy but humans were cheap and malleable, it was more efficient to arrange the workers around the machines than to arrange the machines around the workers.

Since I loved competing, I never really questioned any of this.”

whenever you impose a quota on talent, no matter what the reason, then the assessment of individual potential is moved into the eye of the beholder.

The fact that most people could not solve the cube activated his competition micro-motive.