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You Do You: Why Blueprints for Success Rarely Take Us There
There are quite a few blueprints for success out there.
Wake up at 5am, eat what so-and-so tech billionaire has for breakfast, and then take a bath in a tub of ice cubes.
In what they called the Dark Horse Project, Director of Harvard’s Mind, Brain and Education program, Todd Rose, and his colleague Ogi Ogas, a computational neuroscientist, interviewed dozens of “high fliers” from a range of industries. They found that the most fulfilled, the most sucessful hadn't followed a blueprint. Their careers were meandering to the point that they expressed embarrassment by all the twists and turns they’d taken.
The high-fliers hadn’t master the skills of stepping up the ladder. They’d mastered how to harness their individuality.
In the same way our culture tends to map out a blueprint for success, we seem to be obsessed with codifying the qualities of good leadership.
But theories and codes and abstractions are not what inspire us. The individuals behind them do.
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By Nancy MillerThere are quite a few blueprints for success out there.
Wake up at 5am, eat what so-and-so tech billionaire has for breakfast, and then take a bath in a tub of ice cubes.
In what they called the Dark Horse Project, Director of Harvard’s Mind, Brain and Education program, Todd Rose, and his colleague Ogi Ogas, a computational neuroscientist, interviewed dozens of “high fliers” from a range of industries. They found that the most fulfilled, the most sucessful hadn't followed a blueprint. Their careers were meandering to the point that they expressed embarrassment by all the twists and turns they’d taken.
The high-fliers hadn’t master the skills of stepping up the ladder. They’d mastered how to harness their individuality.
In the same way our culture tends to map out a blueprint for success, we seem to be obsessed with codifying the qualities of good leadership.
But theories and codes and abstractions are not what inspire us. The individuals behind them do.