In the dark horse project researchers at Harvard wanted to study people who arrived at success in a roundabout way. Their common trait is this short term planning where they don't look around and say here'sWho I am right now, here's my skills and interests,. Here's the opportunities in front of me. They just do that until they get to a spot where they can kind of uniquely succeed and feel fulfilled. One of my favorite characters in the book kind of got her first real job when she was 54 basically or like Andre Gein, the only scientist who won both the Ig Nobel Prize for the silliest research and the Nobel Prize for levitating frogs with magnets.