Finding Your Edge with Laura Huang

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.   Her work has been featured in all kinds of impressive places: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and a whole bunch of others.   Through her work Laura helps people come to understand how others see them, take control of that narrative, and use it to their advantage.   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.   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.   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.   In this episode you'll learn: What Laura does How she followed her curiosity to her current work How to empower individuals facing adversity to create their own edge Why hard work and grit leave us frustrated Did Laura always hope and plan on being a researcher? Why following someone else's path will produce different results What is the meaning of “Finding Your Edge”? What are “Soft Skills” and how can we develop and leverage them? How to improve in self awareness What is the difference between self awareness and understanding someone else's perception of you Show notes at: https://themeaningmovement.com/laurah