Laura Huang | Turning Adversity into Advantage
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Laura Huang is a professor at Harvard Business School. She joins us on the show to to dissect the topic of adversity and how we can find a way forward when it comes into the picture. During our discussion, we talk through her framework, a how-to on turning adversity into advantage, as well as discover why hard work and grit is, in fact, the last thing you should focus on.
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| 0:00.0 | And it's not that grit isn't critical, but there's something else that in times of crisis, in times of adversity that we need that goes beyond grit. |
| 0:11.0 | We need to be able to hone our ability to kind of see and interpret |
| 0:15.8 | what's happening. Like we need to see sort of what are those perceptions and |
| 0:19.8 | those attributions that we have? what are those perceptions and those |
| 0:22.8 | attributions that others have about us? And how do we sort of flip these things in our |
| 0:28.1 | favor? How do we see and act upon opportunities in our own way so that we can actually create something that works and sustains for ourselves. |
| 0:38.8 | We can't be passively letting others write our narrative. We need to write our own narrative and be guiding our own |
| 0:44.7 | path and be guiding others views of us. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting |
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