About David Rollo
Ten true things, and the one lie I told myself.
Ten true stories, each with a lesson it taught me and the question it left behind. The eleventh is the lie I believed for more than twenty years. The lessons are mine. The questions are now yours.
The author
David H. Rollo
Author, speaker, and lifelong asker of better questions. I spent a long time being easy to like and hard to actually know. I'm done with that, and this page is where I start.
The notebook
Truth 1 of 10
I started in the mailroom at Apple, sorting envelopes for people whose names I'd only seen on memos.
Lesson
The room you start in doesn't decide the room you end in. It decides how you treat the people still sorting mail.
The question
What are you too proud to begin?
The confession
If you've made it this far, you know more about me than most people I've spent years in rooms with. That was the point. None of these were easy to write down, and a few I'd have rather kept.
But a man who builds his life around better questions can't stay the one person he never asks them of. So here it all is. Hello. I'm glad you're here.
In the book, Simon Millar finally asks his question. He's ready. In most of the ways that matter, so am I.
Keep in touch
I write most weeks. It's called The Unconsidered.
Short notes on the questions I'm sitting with, and the ones I think are worth carrying. Free, and easy to leave.
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