Angela Duckworth

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Angela Duckworth is an American academic, psychologist, MacArthur Genius grant winner and the co-host of the podcast No Stupid Questions. She is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control. Angela chats with the Armchair Expert about the components of grit, her inclination to study achievement and the amorphous quality to intelligence. Dax talks about fulfillment vs. success and Angela talks about the imperative of intentional role modeling. The two discuss objectivism in The Fountainhead, the detriment of comparison and Angela evaluates Dax and Monica's grit. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm
0:02.8	Dan Shepard. I'm joined by a miniature mouse.
0:05.2	Hello, maximum, Daxima.
0:08.0	Does it scare you when I go, meow? Because mice are afraid of cats.
0:12.0	Oh, meow.
0:14.0	Ooh. Maybe I was a mouse in another life because I...
0:17.0	Sorry, I know everyone's going to be mad at me.
0:19.0	I do not like cats.
0:20.0	They're not.
0:21.0	They don't even have to say you dislike them. You just would never own one.
0:23.6	Okay, but you know what? I don't like them. Okay, that's fair too. Okay. I got to tell you, we really had a blast talking to this guest. She will remind you a lot of our conversation
0:35.3	with Stephen Dubner from Freckinomics if you remember that conversation. It has
0:39.0	the same meandering facts popping up here and there it was really really
0:44.3	delicious quality and the guest is Angela Duckworth Angela is an academic
0:49.8	psychologist in science author she is the Rosa Lee and
0:53.7	Egbert Chang professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania where she
0:57.8	studies grit and self-control. She won the MacArthur Award right?
1:01.3	MacArthur Genius Grant.
1:02.9	My goodness, what an achievement.
1:04.6	She has a couple great books.
1:06.3	Grit, the power of passion and perseverance.
1:09.0	She also has a TED Talk of the same name.
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