Dr. Todd Rose

And for me, and I don't mean this to sound arrogant...

It took seven years from when I was felled out of high school to when I got into Harvard for my doctorate.

Another seven years before I was a professor.

Like, that time's going to go past no matter what you do.

And when you think about those sort of time horizons, you know, five years is going to go by, whether you like it or not.

And all the fear you feel, first of all, I'll say most of it is completely unfounded.

Now you know why.

It's a prison in our own minds.

We're at war with ourselves.

But whatever fear you feel, remember, you know something's wrong right now.

Like the status quo in your own life is not good enough.

you know that you deserve better than that.

That time's going to pass.

Just start the small acts, get on that path of authenticity, and I promise you, you won't even recognize yourself.

Todd Rose, what are your parting words?

It's easy for individuals.

just living their life, trying to make ends meet day to day.

You barely have enough time to do anything for yourself.

The problems in our society seem so big, so insurmountable that there's like an apathy that sets in because what could I possibly do?

It is exhausting because it's exhausting in part because we don't know what to do.