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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Caroline Adams Miller: Getting Grit

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Caroline Miller is one of the world's foremost experts in positive psychology and the author of books such as Creating Your Best Life and My Name Is Caroline. With Sounds True, she has recently published Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Caroline discuss the concept of "grit"—the ability to stay passionate and persistent in one's long-term goals even in the face of considerable hardship. Caroline explains the different kinds of grit, including "false grit" that encourages stubbornness or flatters the ego. Finally, Tami and Caroline talk about the startling fact that we don't become happy when we are successful; rather, we become successful because we're happy first. (56 minutes)

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.

0:14.3

At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

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as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Caroline Miller.

0:44.9

Caroline is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania's

0:50.4

master of Applied Positive Psychology Program.

0:54.0

For almost three decades, Caroline Miller has been a pioneer

0:59.0

with her groundbreaking work in areas of goal setting and accomplishment, grit, happiness, and success.

1:07.0

She's recognized as one of the world's leading positive psychology experts.

1:13.0

She's the author of several best-selling books,

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including My Name is Caroline,

1:19.0

Creating Your Best Life,

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and a new book with sounds true called Getting Grit, the evidence-based

1:26.6

approach to cultivating passion, perseverance, and purpose. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Caroline and I spoke about getting grit, how being gritty is being passionate and

1:35.0

I spoke about getting grit, how being gritty is being passionate and persistent

1:42.0

when it comes to long-term goals and how the

1:45.3

happiest people wake up to hard goals. We talked about authentic grit and how it's different from three kinds of false grit what

1:56.8

Caroline calls stubborn grit, foe grit and selfie grit. We also talked about why millennials on the whole lack grit and how

2:06.8

this is a real challenge for an entire generation who quote-unquote don't do hard.

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