246. How to Get More Grit in Your Life

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🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The psychologist Angela Duckworth argues that a person's level of stick-to-itiveness is directly related to their level of success. No big surprise there. But grit, she says, isn't something you're born with -- it can be learned. Here's how.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Stephen Dubner and this is Freakonomics Radio.
0:04.0	Before we get into today's show, there's something I want to mention about our previous episode.
0:08.0	It was called How To Become Great at Just About Anything, and it looked at how the key to
0:13.7	expert performance is deliberate practice, even more than natural talent.
0:18.8	And at the end of the show, we did a call out for volunteers who would be willing to enroll
0:23.0	in a deliberate practice regimen to try to become excellent at whatever they're passionate
0:28.6	about.
0:29.6	We were thinking about picking five or ten volunteers and following their pursuit for
0:34.4	a series of podcasts.
0:35.8	The place to write, by the way, if you're interested, is radio at Freakonomics.com.
0:41.0	The good news is that we were inundated with replies, more than 2,500 emails so far.
0:47.2	People who want to become great at all kinds of musical pursuits and sports, but also
0:53.5	language, coding, math, drawing, gaming, calligraphy, wood carving, dog training, documentary
1:01.2	filmmaking, even podcasting.
1:04.0	You name it and somebody out there wants to get great at it.
1:07.4	It is unbelievably inspiring to read all these emails, so that is the good news.
1:12.9	The bad news is that, well, we got 2,500 emails, which means it's going to take us a while
1:19.1	to sort things through and to come up with a plan.
1:21.7	So if you have written in, please be very, very patient.
1:26.4	It also means that we're only going to be able to accept a tiny share of the volunteers
1:31.8	to be featured in the podcast, so that we are going to try to come up with a way for anyone
1:35.5	who wants to build and follow their own deliberate practice schedule.
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