if you want to raise your hand and when you um when you get the mic please introduce yourself your name and your school go hello I'm Nathan Harris a junior computer science major at Morehouse
But I've taught my kids that time has such significant value. School . She did well.
If I'm a non-traditional applicant, I don't see a lot of examples of myself where I've been in kind of communities writ large, not just business school , but hey, that's a perspective that can help other people see the world through new ways, and that's a potential contributionIf I see myself represented in a certain space as well, okay, there are other things that I also bring to the table.
which will link you to many of the things that I'm referring to. school and opportunities even if you don't have immediate access to someone in your network or aren't able to visit campus.
So also provide some space and grace just because they are a "quote-unquote" student. School websites actually have a lot of really good information.
And when introducing friction improves an experience, you can call it good friction according to Huggy Rao, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He's also the co-author, along with Bob Sutton, of The Friction Project.Friction for us has to do with obstacles.
He will be in conversation with Amit Seru, the Stephen and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Amit is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.His research interests include financial intermediation and regulation, which make him a perfect couple for this conversation.
Um, I did the most terrible dumb thing that I knew I was doing at the time. I had a really great group of writer friends from grad school in New York, and I think writing is a very lonely, solitary thing. But weirdly, writers kind of support each other and just, "Who do you give the story to?" You know, you don't wanna giveit to your mom or dad, you know. You kinda wanna give it to somebody who's gonna really punch you in the nose and tell you what's wrong with
stuff. He's like, "That's amazing. Can you make a video so I can show my wife?" And I was on the way to a school board meeting, 'cause I was on the school board at Dylan's school - ... and I said, "Hey, Dylan, come downstairs. I want to make this video. It'll take one minute, just need to do this thing for my friend, Shane." And he's like, "I don't wantto." And I said, "Come on, this'll take one minute." "I don't want to." So I said to my wife, I'm like, "Nina, would you tell Dylan to come downstairs? I want to do this
time quite a bit, and then it's not easy to write about it, but it's very interesting to think about. And I would love to find the school dude, and he didn't even react to these.
And you were a clinical assistant professor of neurology at Stanford University Hospital, and also you did a neurology residency at Harvard Medical School . Yes. I grew up in California. I became a biochemist, and then I wound up being interested in medicine becausebiochemistry is being applied to humans in medicine. So, I became a physician, and then I went into neurology, and I'm
I don't, but my wife, you know, me and my wife been together a long time since we were in off and on through middle school and high school and all that, but she she tells me, "Don't you Yeah,there she is. She tells me, "Don't you remember? Like, I've always thought something, you know, you never wanted to be around big crowds, go to all the
paparazzi then, like to be shouting things and like reading um quotes from from tabloids to me as I'm leaving school . To put this in context, this divorce apparently garnered moreheadlines than the OJ Simpson trial. So, that was a lot. The difference is that
I think a post-literate society brings up another question and that is what is school for? Like, are we here for the purpose of learning and learning for thesake of learning and curiosity? Or do we go to school so that we can build skills
Yeah. Essentially, it it all happened very young for me. So I I guess I was in high school towards the end of high school when I began to think, you know, these were these were the Bush years and evangelical Christianity in particularwas super dominant and it was totally totally melded with um you know with the
who is a kind of nerdy dork Christian in modernity like myself who, you know, reads a bunch of books and goes to school . Um, you know, you stand in the shadows of those cathedrals in Europe, which I did while I was in grad school .I was at Cambridge. Um, and you feel like they almost understood something that has been lost to us now in
with melanoma. Oncologist Elizabeth Bbinder from TUS un Tus University School of Medicine in Boston has been explaining what makes it so personalized. This is going to beentirely person specific and even beyond that it's tumor specific. So if somebody
school or college will generally enter you when they think you're ready.
school . And when he met street priests, he was finally able to build a different
school . Um so and then I can't get my car repoed because I need it to move. Um so those are my biggest two and
school I know I don't look it but in your high school reunion um and I went with my my wife Alex and
school and residency. Um, and at that time, it was like, "No, you you just answer your pages right away. Like, that's just what you do." And so, for
School , the safe spaces that that created.
school that can increase your status. So status is really really powerful because just having that sort of influence. And
School study, right? Because it's about-- it's about Anatomy of a Badass.
school and the law librarians-- they were helping me answer this other "What If?" question.
School , this religious order for teaching.
School , which is still there, of course.
school boards, school principals, in, actually, not just the US, but globally-- on their shoulders rests so many incredible decisions right now,
school -- say, grade seven, grade eight-- and talk to girls and talk to them about body issues and insecurities, and just to share my story,
school , or maybe invest in a business.
school so that was like to me it sounds kind of a silly thing to say but it made all the difference because
School of Government. Aarti is joining us from her home in Oakland.
school . So she always prepared me for rejection and to learn that rejection is not to be taken in a bad way,
School was my escape.
school diplomas because I've gone across the stage twice on. And if you if you if you look at at that situation on
school room. You have to address the issues in the boardroom, and you have to address the issues in the school and in the courtroom. Those aerial issues because,
School at CIA and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy when they still existed.
school it's called to be smart on. It's almost like the teachers perceptions of them, the society's perceptions of them, the propaganda that you have a
school district in Missouri and you talked about the thing that was most untested. That seemed to be the most
school with the Children of the people. They say they're marching for. And if you can't do that, then you don't actually believe that black lives matter because you're
school is in decline. Whether the data actually shows that or not.
school integration. If, ah, place like Google tried to actually use it Z heft to push the message out that the
school district in the country, and they had chromebooks for days. And those chromebooks sat locked up in a cage somewhere because no one had taught the
School . It means learning, so it should be a thing that challenges you that that makes you better.
school . And so I was able to make it to flying fighter jets, especially out of Virginia Beach, which is a very coveted location.
school achievement. Then the second part of the talk and the book is about the DNA revolution-- identifying specific DNA differences that account
School achievement is 60% heritable, so we've got a long way to go.
School funding in general is a difficult problem.
school system. But I think because she gave it her blessing, the mayor and the chancellor got behind it and said, even if we're sued, we're going to move forward with this.