Regaining Confidence

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to recover from a setback? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Neil Pasricha, a former Walmart executive and the author of You Are Awesome. They talk through what to do when your confidence is shattered by bad reviews, you’re in a difficult situation that you don't know how to navigate, or you want to be a high achiever again after plateauing for a while.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.7	Today we're talking with Neil Pasricha about facing adversity.
0:36.2	He's a former Walmart executive and the author of
0:38.7	You Are Awesome, How to Navigate, Change, wrestle with Failure, and Live in Intentional Life.
0:43.7	Neil, thanks for coming on the show. Thanks so much for having me. So where do you become interested in failure?
0:49.8	By going through a lot of it, by getting it in my hair and under my fingernails, by growing up as a child.
0:56.0	And like everyone these days, we wrestle with things, right?
0:59.1	You fail a test.
1:01.2	You get tossed out of a relationship.
1:03.1	In my case, you get tossed out of a marriage.
1:05.5	So that's a huge passion for me and one that I've come to realize through my own slips and trips for many years.
1:12.1	So you were also Director of Leadership Development of Walmart.
1:15.7	Did you see the people you worked with, the people at the company struggling with their own failures?
1:21.7	Yeah, I saw people struggling with failures a lot.
1:23.6	And here's a thing.
1:24.8	The feeling that when we get these little microaggressions in meetings or someone doesn't get back to our email or the boss says something flipping in a
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