I was rejected from Harvard three different times I was rejected as a doctoral student and I was rejected in their MBA program. So I feel very grateful that I have this perspective of this insider looking out as well as the outsider looking in. We all have things that we're really good at and we just need to be able to admit to ourselves what it is even if it looks different from what other people have so that our hard work does work harder for us.
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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