407: Adversity into Advantage with Laura Huang
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Adversity into Advantage
Laura Huang
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As I get older, I appreciate the struggles of my past almost as much as the successes, and here’s my question for you: What if your greatest weakness could be flipped and leveraged as your greatest strength?
What if your biggest problems could be reframed as your best assets? The world of leaders and heros is filled with people who leveraged their rock-bottom experiences to create abundance and service in the present.
Currently, we’re living in very difficult times. The health and economy of the world is suffering from COVID-19, and uncertainty is the norm. While no one knows exactly how this will change the world, it’s very clear that things will change. And if we’re fortunate and diligent, perhaps these adverse times can eventually become an advantage too.
Listen & Learn:
- How to create your own edge in life, often built off the adversity of your past
- Why EDGE (enrich, delight, guide, effort) can give you a framework for moving forward
- Why hard work is the last step, not the first - you need to aim first
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ABOUT OUR GEST
Laura Huang is an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. She was previously assistant professor of management at Wharton. Her research has been featured in The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes and Nature. Her new book is, The Edge - Turning Adversity into Advantage.
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| 0:00.0 | What if your greatest weakness was actually your greatest strength? |
| 0:07.0 | What if the things that you think are holding you back in life actually have the potential |
| 0:11.6 | to propel you forward. |
| 0:13.0 | Whether that's in health, wealth, relationships, whatever you're trying to move forward in, |
| 0:16.7 | whatever success definition you're using, what if those things that you think are your biggest problems |
| 0:21.7 | are actually the opposite. |
| 0:23.2 | If you look at the history of success, |
| 0:25.6 | there's just hundreds, maybe thousands of examples of people. |
| 0:28.4 | It's just massive, massive problems |
| 0:31.2 | who still became very successful. and the misplaced word there is still |
| 0:34.4 | because in many cases I suspect that it's actually because of the problem |
| 0:38.3 | they became successful Franklin Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down from polio. |
| 0:43.3 | Oprah Winfrey had this horrible, abusive, sexually abusive, childhood. |
| 0:47.9 | Even somebody like Richard Branson, totally dyslexic has hundreds of companies, probably wouldn't |
| 0:52.2 | be able to do high-level work without |
| 0:55.0 | dyslexia, right? |
| 0:56.1 | And so in your life, I don't know what it is that is holding it back, whether it's a physical limitation, |
| 1:01.2 | a learning disability, mental and emotional challenges. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm not sure what it is, but it's possible that if you flip your perspective, if you start to |
| 1:08.8 | look at the skills, experiences, unique ability, unique experiences, unique voice that you have, |
| 1:15.0 | it's possible that those things could turn into a big advantage for you. |
| 1:19.0 | One of the pleasant things about getting older |
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