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

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Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What factors determine our success? How can our path 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 those questions and writing about the topic in the 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. Her website is https://laurahuang.net/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	What factors determine our success?
0:18.1	And how can our paths to success be made a little bit easier?
0:21.2	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.
0:36.0	Oh, my pleasure. Thanks so much for having me.
0:38.1	Tell us what prompted you to write the book. You know, well, I have been doing research for,
0:43.8	you know, over a decade on inequality and disadvantage and people who sort of feel underestimated
0:49.3	and had kept getting asked the question, like, what do we do about this? What are there 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
1:34.3	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
1:46.6	necessarily speak for itself, even though we're told that. And even though hard work is critical,
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