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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1914 | Angela Duckworth: “Talent Counts, but Effort Counts Twice."

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

What’s more important, talent or effort? On today’s episode, Angela Duckworth reveals how effort applied to skill is what creates human achievement.

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0:00.0

Yo today's Q-O-D is Talent counts, but effort counts twice.

0:05.7

Here we go. So, Welcome back to the quarter of the day Show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.

0:36.0

We got Dr. Angela Duckworth on this show today. She is the author of a fabulous book that I highly

0:42.0

recommended is called Grit.

0:44.3

Really good book that poses the question and she poses it on this episode as well.

0:49.7

What's more important, talent or effort.

0:54.4

And she gets into the science of why effort

0:58.0

and a particular type of practice

1:00.9

that if you do it can actually make you better at what you do than those who just

1:06.2

rely upon their talent. It's great stuff. Hey, before we get to Dr Duckworth, a week from

1:11.8

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1:16.5

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1:21.8

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1:23.2

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1:26.0

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1:29.2

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1:30.6

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1:34.2

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1:40.2

Order the book, start reading the book, and again we get to talk about it all together next Wednesday evening.

1:46.7

So again that's Q-O-D book club.com.

1:50.1

Angela Duckworth's coming up.

1:53.7

My dad growing up used to talk about talents and IQ all the time.

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