What Domesticated Foxes Can Teach About Career Growth
Lessons in patience, focus, and transformation from a 65-year experiment in Siberia
In 1959, two Soviet scientists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut embarked on a quiet experiment in the icy wilds of Siberia. Their goal was to breed a tame fox, recreating the process that led to the domestication of dogs from wolves.
They weren’t dog trainers. They weren’t interested in quick results. They were geneticists, testing a transformative theor…
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