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Today on the James Altiger Show.

So the concept of grit is a combination of how much passion you have combined with how

much perseverance you have for that passion.

Having grit more grit rather than less could lead to many positive things, maybe even

some negative things, but it could lead to success in your career, success in your passion.

It could lead to some sort of satisfaction about the direction your life is going, but

to actually have grit and increase it is also related much to how do you learn something

very quickly.

And alongside of this is how do you even find the things you want to be passionate about.

So with Angela Duckworth, author of the best selling book, grit, and she also gave a

TED talk about it, which had 8 million views.

We explore these issues and more.

Yeah, we'll talk about for a minute because everybody talks about it with me, but it wasn't

quite an outfit.

It was sort of my personal love affair with New York combined with what I was seeing.

And rather than just tell a story, I always try to say one thing new.

Yeah.

And so the thing that I had that was new that nobody seemed to be recognizing that I

was talking about was the fact that increases in bandwidth plus the dangers of liability

were leading corporations to tell people, hey, work for a role.

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