Underdog Mentality in Life and Work

Raj
4 min readMar 7, 2021

Last month, I presented to the MBA class at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business by Prof. Pearce. I told a story of having an “Underdog mentality” in both life and work. What happened next surprised me.

Contrary to my expectations, almost every student who reached out afterwards had more questions on the “life” part, and not about the “work” part. Here’s what I spoke about.

First, my definition: What’s an Underdog mentality?

Underdog mentality is the consistent ability to turn your (obvious) disadvantages into…

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Raj

Eternal Student of strategy, economics and history.