Ep. 847: Laura Huang Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor.
The topic is her book Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Huang draws from her award-winning research on entrepreneurial intuition, persuasion, and implicit decision-making, to impart her profound findings and share stories of previously-overlooked Olympians, assistants-turned-executives, and flailing companies that made momentous turnarounds. Through her deeply-researched framework, Huang shows how we can turn weaknesses into strengths and create an edge in any situation. She explains how an entrepreneur scored a massive investment despite initially being disparaged for his foreign accent, and how a first-time political candidate overcame voters' doubts about his physical disabilities.
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.0 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | I love this opening title. |
| 0:37.0 | Edge. |
| 0:38.1 | Turning adversity into advantage. |
| 0:41.7 | I can tell you, my experience, last 20 years, the numbers of people that get that deep in their bones. |
| 0:49.9 | The whole population, almost nobody. |
| 0:53.7 | Very few people. People want to play by the nobody. Very few people. |
| 0:55.4 | People want to play by the rules. |
| 0:57.3 | They want credentials. |
| 0:59.0 | They want approval. |
| 1:00.1 | They want family acceptance. |
| 1:03.1 | They want peer acceptance. |
| 1:05.1 | All this other stuff that has nothing to do with you really getting to the goal. |
| 1:12.1 | My guest today, Laura Wang, and that title that I read is her book, Edge, Turning Adversity |
| 1:19.0 | Into Advantage. |
| 1:20.6 | Look, the bottom line is to get ahead. |
| 1:22.8 | We all need some kind of an edge. |
| 1:25.1 | And if you don't have one, you can make one. And if you don't believe |
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