Want to get ahead at work? Risk the awkward moments | Henna Pryor

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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When we avoid feeling awkward, we often miss an opportunity for growth, says workplace performance expert Henna Pryor. She shares tips on embracing discomfort for the sake of self-betterment and shows how pushing past the "cringe chasm" — the gap between how we perceive ourselves and how others see us — can open up chances to get ahead at work and in life.

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0:17.0	Middle school.
0:19.0	A lot of us have some pretty awkward memories from that period of adolescence and it makes sense from a developmental
0:25.7	perspective.
0:26.7	We want to fit in socially and middle school is when a lot of that really matters.
0:32.5	In today's talk, leadership coach
0:33.9	Henna Pryor explains that the very human desire
0:36.8	for approval can have really limiting effects
0:39.8	on our potential and our growth,
0:41.9	her case for tolerating and leaning into awkwardness is after the break.
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