Dr. Todd Rose

Because when they're your honest beliefs that you've arrived at, you know why.

I'll give you an example.

I have a deep commitment, like probably most people, to human rights.

It might be the most important concept to me of anything in the world, that every individual has moral worth, and we are equal to one another, and we are never, ever a means to someone else's ends.

That's how I want to be viewed and treated.

That's how I will view and treat other people.

Human rights flows from dignity.

So I know for sure I believe that.

But you'll be shocked at how many things you think you believe are just the norms of your society that you've never really questioned because you want to fit in.

for me, didn't do very well in school.

That's an understatement.

I failed out of high school with a 0.9 GPA.

0.9, that's possible?

You have to work really hard to do that poorly.

I ended up failing out.

A couple of months later, my girlfriend at the time, who was my wife for 29 years, found out she was pregnant.

This is rural Utah.

It's not something one does in rural Utah.

We were on welfare.

We ended up with two kids by the time I was 20, doing a string of minimum wage jobs at a paper route at 4 a.m.