Finding Your Edge with Laura Huang

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Laura Huang is a researcher and professor at Harvard Business School. She researches and teaches on concepts of perception and bias in work and business.</p> <p> </p> <p>Her work has been featured in all kinds of impressive places: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and a whole bunch of others.</p> <p> </p> <p>Through her work Laura helps people come to understand how others see them, take control of that narrative, and use it to their advantage.</p> <p> </p> <p>In our interview we talk about how what she is advocating is an empowering bottom-up approach to the systemic change that a lot people talk about today.</p> <p> </p> <p>This conversation was a blast. We talk about why "soft-skills" matter so much, how much fun footnotes are, and lots of other great things.</p> <p> </p> <p>More than anything, Laura's a fantastic conversation partner with so much to offer anyone thinking deeply about who they are, where they're going, and what skills and steps may be needed to get there.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>In this episode you'll learn:</strong></p> <ul> <li>What Laura does</li> <li>How she followed her curiosity to her current work</li> <li>How to empower individuals facing adversity to create their own edge</li> <li>Why hard work and grit leave us frustrated</li> <li>Did Laura always hope and plan on being a researcher?</li> <li>Why following someone else's path will produce different results</li> <li>What is the meaning of “Finding Your Edge”?</li> <li>What are “Soft Skills” and how can we develop and leverage them?</li> <li>How to improve in self awareness</li> <li>What is the difference between self awareness and understanding someone else's perception of you</li> </ul> <p><strong>Show notes at: <a href= "https://themeaningmovement.com/?p=13378">https://themeaningmovement.com/laurah</a></strong></p>