The number-one career book I’ve read is Dark Horse: Achieving Success through the Pursuit of Fulfillment.
It got me thinking about real life as it’s played out in America for most people.
It’s a mistake going after what everyone else has because you think you should have these things too.
In society we’re inculcated from an early age that to get ahead we have to get into a good school to get the right degree to get a coveted job.
Author Todd Rose in Dark Horse calls this flawed method “the standardization covenant.”
The dilemma is that everyone else is doing the identical thing. Competing against others has become the norm.
According to this copycat way of doing things once you achieve the goal of getting that job or position in life you’ll be happy.
The divergent careerists in Dark Horse weren’t happy chasing other people’s dreams of what success looked like. This set these Dark Horses up to fail.
The individuals in the book did 360-degree turnarounds.
A woman with a failed corporate job started up a successful supper club.
A woman with a doomed office career created a better livelihood as an inventive floral designer.
They prove the premise that your individuality should not be forsaken in the quest to earn income.
In a coming blog entry I’m going to talk about how having an illness can impact your identity in a positive way.
My recent CURESZ.org recovery profile got me thinking about this very thing.
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