The Courageous Life On the Science of Mastering Your Intuition | Laura Huang
What sets the most successful people apart?
You may think that the answer is hard work (and it’s certainly part of it),
but in her interviews of the most accomplished individuals—
from entrepreneurs and investors to Olympic athletes and Pulitzer Prize winners—
Distinguished Professor of Management, Dr. Laura Huang discovered
that what they called their gut feel, the product of their intuition,
played the most important role.
Laura, who has held faculty positions at Harvard Business School
and the Wharton School has in many ways dedicated her research career
to quantifying the ‘unquantifiable’.
Her work shows that we all have intuition -
a combination of our brain's intelligent synthesis of external data
and the entirety of our personal experiences.
Our intuition draws from what we already know and what we didn’t even realize we knew.
This process culminates in a gut feel which can manifest as:
- A eureka moment,
- A Spidey sense,
- Or a jolt that changes how we see things and compels us to act.
If you’re like most people, these flashes of clarity arise passively.
Random occurrences that come out of the blue.
And yet in her powerful new book:
You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition,
Laura shares: "What makes our gut feel a superpower is our ability to go from the passive to the active.”
That move, from passive to active, lies at the center of our conversation today.
Together we’ll explore:
How we can strengthen our ability to hear the quiet whisper of our intuition,
And be truer to ourselves and those moments of clarity
when our head and our heart converge.
Laura’s words offer us all a timely reminder:
"As the external world gets ever noisier, often, the smartest thing we can do is
listen to our gut to guide us in the right direction.
Trust Yourself.
You already know."
For more on Laura, her books, speaking, events, and research please visit proflaurahuang.com
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