Best of 2020: Angela Duckworth

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Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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For the week of Christmas, we'll be airing our Best episodes of 2020 a second time. We start with new episodes again on the 30th with a solo episode from Mark. In the meantime, enjoy and have a Merry Christmas. Well-known academic expert on personal Grit, Angela Duckworth is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance." She talks with Commander Divine today about the importance of Grit for success. Listen now...

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0:58.0	Welcome back to the Unbeatable Mind podcast.
1:02.0	Thanks so much for your time today.
1:03.9	I'm gonna get right into it
1:05.8	with my very cool guest, Angela Duckworth,
1:09.3	who you may have heard about as an expert on grit.
1:12.6	So Angela, thanks for being here.
1:14.5	Angela is a PhD in psychology,
1:18.1	University of Pennsylvania.
1:20.1	She has her own nonprofit that she's founded and she directs called the Character Lab focusing on character development for youth.
1:28.6	Super excited to talk about that.
1:30.9	She's the author of a book titled grit something seals know about the grit the
1:36.9	power of passion and perseverance and I've watched her TED Talk and it's been viewed over 20 million times.
1:45.8	That's pretty cool Angela.
1:47.2	I mean, did you expect that when you gave that TED Talk?
1:50.3	I think there are lots of kids all around the world who have been forced to watch my TED Talk
1:56.2	and I would like to formally apologize to each and every one of them.
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