Angela Duckworth on Character

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Many people think schools are no place for teaching character. Psychologist Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania and founder of Character Lab, disagrees. She talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the implicit curriculum for character, the critical role early education plays in shaping our adult values, and why the Marshmallow Test doesn't determine our destiny.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
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0:32.3	Today's February 17th, 2022, and before we get to today's episode, I have some fun housekeeping
0:43.0	work to take care of.
0:44.8	First of all, I plan to do an episode coming up on Greed, discussing Adam Smith and Leo
0:49.4	Tolstoy.
0:50.4	The Tolstoy will be taken from a short story, Master and Man.
0:53.5	Just a fabulous story, but to avoid spoilers, you might want to read it before the conversation
0:58.3	will link to the story and then us from this episode.
1:01.7	I also want to share the results from the list of poll of your favorite episodes of 2021.
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1:27.4	For 2021, here are the top 10 episodes, which is actually 12.
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