752: Angela Duckworth | How to Grow Your Grit
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Angela Duckworth (@angeladuckw) is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, founder of the non-profit Character Lab, co-host of the No Stupid Questions podcast, and author of NYT bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh pass through your earholes!]
What We Discuss with Angela Duckworth:- What grit is and how it overrides the myth of innate "talent."
- How to quantify your own level of grit.
- How to grow your grit and achieve what once seemed impossible.
- Why, when you’re a lifelong learner, you’re always going to see in hindsight how you might have done something better in the past — and this is a sign of improvement.
- How to know the difference between a lost cause to abandon and a challenge worthy of pursuit.
- And much more...
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| 0:51.9 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:54.4 | Almost all of us could be so much more than we might believe we could be. |
| 0:59.9 | I mean, it's really my conviction that in the right circumstances with the right support, |
| 1:06.0 | and with the right mindset and the right, you know, optimism, |
| 1:10.4 | people can do marvellous things. |
| 1:12.8 | And we ought not put ceilings on ourselves too early, |
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