“But it’s riskier not to.” Ī good dark horse storyline is irresistible because it seems just as irreplicable as it does improbable: Oprah Winfrey being fired from one of her first jobs in television, Bob Dylan losing a high school talent show, Walt Disney being fired from The Kansas City Star for lacking “imagination” and having “no good ideas” - the list goes on. “It’s risky and scary to pursue what matters to you,” Rose muses. Instead, his change of fate “emerged from a series of at first seemingly random, yet always interrelated events.” It’s paying attention to these random events - and figuring out what makes them not so random - that allows a person to find a distinct pathway to success. No stint at a wilderness therapy program or a boarding school that “scared him straight.” There was no morning that he woke up and decided to change it all for the better. No touching made-for-television conversation with a mentor or teacher.
Rose will tell you that there was no “aha!” moment that turned his life around. Rose believes we can all be dark horses, or someone who on paper shouldn’t succeed, but beats the odds and does. Turns out, we all can have a chance to find success even in the most unlikely of situations. And he’s dedicated his life’s work to revealing how important individuality is to success and how we need to restructure societal systems to allow for individual opportunity instead of focusing on an “average” that doesn’t exist. He’s authored three books (two of them bestsellers) and founded the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at Harvard as well as a nonprofit think tank called Populace. Instead, he ended up on faculty at Harvard University. Most people wouldn’t be surprised if the next chapter in Rose’s story included a stint (or two) in jail before concluding in a lackluster, melancholy dénouement.
Shortly thereafter, his then-girlfriend (and now wife) found out she was pregnant. “My principal told my parents, ‘There is literally no chance he can graduate,’ so my parents were like, ‘OK fine, you got to get a job somewhere.’” He got a job stocking shelves at a department store for $4.25 per hour. The Hooper, Utah, native was kicked out of Layton High school with a 0.9 GPA. By his senior year in high school, it was evident that very little - including stink bombs - could interest Rose anymore.
Stink bombs, at the time, were much more interesting than anything Mr. Todd Rose was no stranger to school suspensions by the time he got to the seventh grade at Sand Ridge Junior High School.
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