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Squiggly Careers

#36 How to Use Grit to Supercharge Your Career

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Management, Careers, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Angela's Duckworth's TED Talk on Grit is one of Amazing If's 'must watches' for people looking to invest in their Squiggly Career Skills. In this week's podcast, Helen and Sarah share how grit has helped them overcome career challenges like getting promoted, completing an MBA and delivering big projects at work. They also share 4 ways in which you can develop more grit to increase your impact and success at work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Squiggly Career Podcast. I'm Helen Tupper, one of the co-founders

0:07.1

of Amazing If and I'm here as ever with Sarah, the other lovely co-founder. Hi everybody. We're very

0:11.9

excited as well. Sarah's been on holiday for a week so I feel like I've been apart from her and this

0:16.0

podcast is our moment to reconnect. I'd love to say I'm sitting here really tanned and bronzed,

0:23.0

but I look at all resemblance, something of a lobster right now.

0:27.6

But refreshed?

0:28.8

A refreshed lobster.

0:30.1

Yeah, that sounds about right.

0:31.6

A refreshed lobster.

0:32.5

I was actually celebrating.

0:34.7

We were away for a week to celebrate my dad turning 60. And in the context of

0:39.6

squiggly careers, he's really interesting because he has just embarked on his own squiggly

0:44.6

career. So I'm really proud of him. Where he's now going to move his contract to being a number

0:50.4

of days per year worked contract rather than a full-time contract.

0:54.8

Very interesting.

0:56.0

I know. I know. I get like so excited when I talk to him.

0:59.3

Also, I said he's just ruined our example because often I use him as our example of,

1:04.3

oh, you know, in previous generations, people worked in the same companies and had the same

1:07.7

types of jobs for a long time, which is exactly what he's done very, very successfully. But I feel like now he's like living the dream, living the amazing

1:14.6

if dream. But now you can add on, but even my dad, even my dad is squiggly. Yeah, even my dad who has

1:21.1

never listened to my podcast as opposed to my mum, who listens to every single podcast,

1:25.1

like word for word and gives me feedback.

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