Angela Duckworth: The Gritty Road to Growth
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Remarkable People, host Guy Kawasaki continues his enlightening dialogue with Angela Duckworth, celebrating her second appearance on the podcast. The two dive into Angela’s “three boxes” model for understanding human behavior and discuss how changing situations can be the most effective lever for personal growth. Angela also shares behind-the-scenes insight into her popular podcast, No Stupid Questions, revealing her process for researching answers to listeners’ curious questions. Discover how Angela triangulates scientific findings, represents conflicting perspectives, and continually updates her understanding of human psychology and behavior. You’ll also get a taste for the show through a rapid-fire round of one-liner answers to some of the show’s recent questions. Along the journey, Angela tells a poignant story of her mother rediscovering artistic passion late in life that speaks to the remarkable transformational power within us all.
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| 0:00.0 | In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth. |
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| 0:44.4 | Hello again. |
| 0:50.1 | It's Guy Kawasaki, |
| 0:52.0 | and you're listening to The Remarkable People podcast. |
| 0:56.3 | We're on a mission to make you remarkable. |
| 0:59.3 | Today, we have, for her second time, the extraordinary Angela Duckworth. |
| 1:06.0 | The last time we had her on, I interviewed her about her book, Grit, The Power of Passion and Perseverance. |
| 1:13.2 | It was a New York Times number one bestseller. |
| 1:16.9 | She is, in a way, the mother of grit. |
| 1:20.6 | Angela is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. |
| 1:25.0 | She is also the CEO of Character Lab, and she has won a MacArthur Award in 2013 |
| 1:31.6 | for her contribution to the concepts of self-control and grit. If all of this wasn't enough, |
| 1:38.8 | Angela is also the co-host of a podcast called No Stupid Questions. |
| 1:44.9 | It's a great podcast. You should listen to it. |
| 1:47.8 | When a podcaster tells you to listen to somebody else's podcast, there's no higher form of praise. |
| 1:54.2 | Anyway, I'm Guy Kawasaki. This is remarkable people. |
| 1:58.6 | Let's give it up for Angela Duckworth. |
| 2:14.3 | So, Angela, you're in rare company because only you, Bob Cheldini, Jane Goodall, and Julia Cameron have repeated on this podcast. |
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