664 - GRIT Part 1: The Power of Passion and Perseverance with Angela Duckworth

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this episode, Angela Duckworth, an American academic, psychologist and popular science author, amd the author of Grit, came on to talk about the concept of Grit is the combination of Passion and Perseverance, and also the power of learning, how to learn things quickly and efficiently. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.0	So the concept of grit is a combination of how much passion you have combined with how
0:23.1	much perseverance you have for that passion.
0:26.7	Having grit more grit rather than less could lead to many positive things, maybe even
0:33.6	some negative things, but it could lead to success in your career, success in your passion.
0:38.6	It could lead to some sort of satisfaction about the direction your life is going, but
0:44.2	to actually have grit and increase it is also related much to how do you learn something
0:50.0	very quickly.
0:51.4	And alongside of this is how do you even find the things you want to be passionate about.
0:56.8	So with Angela Duckworth, author of the best selling book, grit, and she also gave a
1:02.4	TED talk about it, which had 8 million views.
1:04.4	We explore these issues and more.
1:10.0	Yeah, we'll talk about for a minute because everybody talks about it with me, but it wasn't
1:23.1	quite an outfit.
1:24.1	It was sort of my personal love affair with New York combined with what I was seeing.
1:29.9	And rather than just tell a story, I always try to say one thing new.
1:33.7	Yeah.
1:34.7	And so the thing that I had that was new that nobody seemed to be recognizing that I
1:38.3	was talking about was the fact that increases in bandwidth plus the dangers of liability
1:46.5	were leading corporations to tell people, hey, work for a role.
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