Exploring Grit, with Angela Duckworth

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4.6 • 14.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What is grit? Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and psychologist, author, and world-renown expert on grit Angela Duckworth, PhD, answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on the science of grit.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk, Cosmic Query, the fan favorite.
0:20.0	I got with me Chuck Knies, Jeff.
0:22.0	A. Neil, what's happening?
0:24.0	We're always doing it.
0:25.0	We're doing it.
0:26.0	Cosmic Query.
0:27.0	We got this.
0:28.0	You got to love it.
0:29.0	We love Cosmic Queries and then...
0:31.0	Live, live.
0:32.0	And they love it.
0:33.0	They live.
0:34.0	Live.
0:35.0	Yeah.
0:36.0	I love it.
0:38.0	But I will say that this episode, I happen to monitor the Twitter
0:45.0	and people have really, they are super excited about this episode.
0:50.0	What the topic is grit and perseverance, which is not just what athletes have,
0:55.0	but anyone who achieves and succeeds and excels in life or anything else they choose.
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