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I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is Remarkable People.

This episode's remarkable guest is Angela Duckworth. She is a professor

of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder and CEO of Character Lab.

Duckworth has a BA in Neurobiology from Harvard, a master's in neuroscience from the University of Oxford,

and a PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

She has written a book called Grit, The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

It was a New York Times bestseller for 21 weeks.

Oh yeah, she also won a MacArthur Award in 2013 for her work on the role of grit and self-control

and educational achievement. In this episode, you'll hear one of the most insightful pieces of

advice ever on this podcast, when to quit something. And if that's not enough, she provides

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I'm Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People, and now here is the Remarkable remarkable Angela Duckworth.

I finished grit.

And about one fourth of the way through, I said to myself, oh, God, I would have accomplished more in my life if I had read Grit earlier.

You seem to have done just fine all by yourself.

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