Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of Freakin' Amateur Radio, Steven Dubner.

Thank you so much.

We, Freakin' Amateur Radio, have been recorded live at the theater, at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Our show is typically produced in a studio.

Tonight, not only do we have the pleasure of working with a live audience, but also live music.

So would you please welcome, in their worldwide debut, the composer behind the music you hear on our show every week,

Luis Guerra and the Freakin' Amateur Radio Orchestra.

Also joining us tonight as co-hosts, the University of Pennsylvania Psychology Professor.

She's also the author of the great book, Grit, the power of passion and perseverance.

Would you please welcome Angela Duckworth.

Angela, hello.

Hi, Steven.

I'm dying to know what you're working on that we should all know about.

I recently did an eight minute intervention.

We asked students to give advice to other students.

So we didn't give them money, we didn't give them information.

We simply asked them to help other kids.

They answered questions about how not to procrastinate, how to stay off their cell phone.

In eight minutes, and then we followed them for a full marketing period.

And the students just by being asked for their advice got more motivated and did better in school.

So just telling other people what they should do with their lives makes you better off?

It's kind of not intuitive because everyone does that all the time.

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