Angela Duckworth on Grit

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🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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How important is grit relative to talent? Can grit be taught? Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance talks with with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of success in work, play and life. How much does grit matter? Is grit malleable or something we're born with? Duckworth discusses her research on these questions and how to think about what it means for a child and an adult to thrive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.8	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
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0:25.9	going back to 2006.
0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.6	Today is July 14, 2016, and my guest is Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania,
0:40.5	where she's a professor of psychology, founder and director of the Character Lab, MacArthur
0:45.1	Fellow, and author of grit, the power of passion and perseverance.
0:50.0	Angela, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:51.9	Thank you.
0:52.9	It's good to be here.
0:54.4	So we first, listeners may remember your name.
0:57.4	I think it was mentioned in the episode we did with Paul Tuff a long time ago about
1:02.0	on how children succeed, and I assume is still a big fan of your work.
1:07.9	That's how I first heard of you.
1:09.9	And now your books come out recently, so I thought it'd be great to sit down and talk.
1:13.5	Let's begin with, I think, something of a challenging question.
1:16.6	The word grit is a word we know from everyday English language.
1:21.2	It has certain meanings, I think, to all of us.
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