Grit

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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0:00.0	All right. I have, I'm not kidding when I say I know nothing about this book and I've never heard of it once in my life.
0:05.7	That's good. You're going in fresh. It's called grit. I'm going to assume this is about the grit as like a personal characteristic, right? It's like a grit, the power of persevering or something. Yeah, literally, Peter.
0:20.4	What is that? It's literally grit, colon, the power of passion and something. Yeah, literally, Peter. What is that? It's literally grit colon, the power of
0:23.5	passion and perseverance. Dude, I'm so fucking good now. You've done the show more too long.
0:31.6	Oh my God. Broza, you're not going to do the obvious zinger. What's the obvious singer? Isn't the
0:36.3	title missing an F?
0:38.3	What?
0:39.1	Grift.
0:41.0	Oh my, I'm so stupid.
0:43.0	I was like, what the fuck's for grit?
0:44.4	I think you'd be all over that.
0:46.7	All right, let's just go.
0:47.6	Yeah, yeah, okay.
0:48.0	Peter.
0:48.9	Michael.
0:50.7	What do you know about grit?
0:56.1	All I know is that that title is one F short of being accurate.
1:14.3	So the full title of this book is Grit,, the power of passion and perseverance by Angela Duckworth.
1:16.6	And we will not be talking about it for at least 45 minutes.
1:20.4	Because first, you're going to talk about the history of grit, the history of grittiness.
1:24.1	Well, we do actually have to talk about the history of the concept because this episode
1:27.2	is really about the rise and fall of an idea.
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