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The Psychology Podcast

Caren Baruch-Feldman || Growing Grit in Teens

The Psychology Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Caren Baruch-Feldman is a clinical psychologist, certified school psychologist, and author of The Grit Guide for Teens. She’s also authored numerous articles and workshops on topics such as cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, helping children and adults cope with stress and worry, helping people change, and developing grit and self-control. In this episode of The Psychology Podcast, Caren and I talk about how her work on grit was a natural outgrowth of her clinical practice, and how this led to writing a book specifically for teens. We also cover what she adds to Angela Duckworth’s definition of grit, and her thoughts on some of the controversies surrounding grit, such as the grit vs. conscientiousness debate and the circumstantial factors that affect grit that may be out of one’s control. We also discuss why parenting is different today and the importance of social support in cultivating grit. Lastly Caren sheds some light on things we can pay attention to in order to increase success in achieving our goals, such as the concept of the “two minds” she talks about in her book—the short-term and long-term minds—, effective vs. ineffective goals, why grit for the sake of grittiness isn’t the goal, and why it’s important to connect grit to our values. Links The Grit Guide For Teens is out now All papers mentioned can be found here http://drbaruchfeldman.com/blog/ https://twitter.com/carenfeldman --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give

0:04.6

you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature

0:09.3

a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

0:14.8

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

0:18.0

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Today I'm really happy to have Karen Baruch Feldman on the podcast.

0:42.4

Karen is a clinical psychologist and a sort of have Karen Baruch Feldman on the podcast.

0:43.0

Karen is a clinical psychologist and a certified school psychologist.

0:46.7

She has authored numerous articles and led workshops on topics

0:49.4

such as cognitive behavioral therapy techniques,

0:51.6

helping children and adults cope with stress and worry, helping people change, and developing grit and self-control.

0:57.0

Her latest book is The Grit Guide for Teens, a workbook to help you build perseverance, self-control, and a growth mindset.

1:04.3

Thanks for chatting with me today, Karen.

1:06.3

Oh, thank you for having me.

1:08.4

Can this guide also apply to adult teens, such as myself?

1:13.5

Yes, yes.

1:15.0

I wrote it for teens because I think teens really

1:17.6

need in today's world to have great,

1:19.3

but definitely the concept can be applied to myself, and I do say that a lot in the book and to you

1:24.8

too Scott as well.

1:25.8

Great, yay, and to a lot of our listeners who are adults.

1:30.6

So why or who have children who are teens?

1:34.0

So why did you write this book?

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