#109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Angela Duckworth is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Founder and CEO of Character Lab, a not-for-profit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development. She’s also the author of Grit, a New York Timesbestseller that examines why some people succeed and others fail, and why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Angela and Shane discuss whether human behavior is constant or circumstantial, the mindsets that help us succeed in life, developing our passion, and personal rules for success.

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0:00.0	you know, Freud was wrong about a lot of things,
0:01.6	but one thing he was very right about
0:03.0	is that so much of our behavior
0:05.8	and even our emotion happens below the surface
0:08.7	of consciousness, how much of our behavior
0:11.7	and our emotion and motivation could be going on
0:14.6	without our conscious awareness.
0:16.0	So I think that this dialogue
0:19.6	that happens below the surface of consciousness
0:21.3	can be raised most of it to conscious awareness.
0:24.8	And then you could just like literally have a conversation
0:26.7	like, hey, you know, what is it about my job
0:28.4	that sort of bringing out the worst in me?
0:30.4	Like, let me think about that.
0:31.5	I'll talk to my spouse about it
0:33.1	and then proceed from that.
0:34.8	["Fast and Furious"]
0:49.2	Welcome to the Knowledge Project.
0:51.0	I'm your host, Shane Perish.
0:53.3	This podcast sharpens your mind
0:54.8	by helping you master the best
0:56.4	of what other people have already figured out.
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