Dr. Laura Huang: ...that 'be yourself' is bad advice

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What factors determine our success? How can our paths to success be made a little easier?

Our guest on this episode, Harvard Business School Professor Laura Huang, has spent a great deal of time researching that question and writing about it in the new book, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. In this interview, she explains what to do if you don't have a good natural edge or gut feel. She says we can turn that adversity into advantage, and tells us how.

This episode originally aired in March 2020 and is part of our 'best of' series.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.6	What factors determine our success?
0:18.3	And how can our paths to success be made a little bit easier?
0:21.3	Our guest on this episode, Harvard Business School professor Laura Huang has spent a great
0:26.0	deal of time researching those questions and writing about them in the new book, Edge,
0:31.0	turning adversity into advantage. Professor, thank you so much for joining us. Oh, my pleasure.
0:36.9	Thanks so much for having me.
0:38.1	Tell us what prompted you to write the book.
0:41.2	You know, well, I have been doing research for, you know, over a decade on inequality and
0:46.6	disadvantage and people who sort of feel underestimated and had kept getting asked the question,
0:51.9	like, what do we do about this? What are other strategies that we can take?
0:55.8	Are there tactics that we can take to sort of level the playing field?
0:59.4	And it sort of started to get depressing that all I was finding was these negative effects.
1:04.0	And so the last couple of years, what I really tried to do was really do that,
1:07.1	is find strategies in ways that people can think about leveling the playing field,
1:11.9	flipping their, you know, underestimated strengths upside down to succeed in both business and in life.
1:18.3	And, you know, a lot of it had to do with this premise that we're sort of taught from a really
1:23.5	young age that success is about hard work. You know, we take super successful people who are, you know, CEOs or Olympians or world
1:34.4	record holders, and we ask them, you know, what's the secret to your success?
1:38.1	And inevitably, they'll mention hard work.
1:41.5	And the issue is that we at some point in our lives realize that hard work doesn't
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