As with many of her fans, Taylor Swift and her discography has long been an important part of my personal story. She even became an unexpected source of inspiration during a moment of career transition.
I left my job as an aerospace engineer and human spaceflight designer at NASA to pursue an MBA at Harvard University, a shift that ultimately led to my current path as an economist and investor.
At Harvard, I started to think about Swift’s journey through a professional lens. I was driven by one key question: How do seemingly normal people do extraordinary things? How do they become these ultra-successful unicorns?
After reading an excellent book by legal scholar and documentarian Paul Davis, “Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing,” I began to recognize a number of characteristics that these highly successful people have in common.
There are seven traits in particular that Swift regularly demonstrates.
