How to Cultivate Your Character Strengths | Angela Duckworth

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Angela Duckworth, the founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive.

She is also the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, and faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics.

A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Angela has advised the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs.

Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Studies Neurobiology at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude. With the support of a Marshall Scholarship, she completed an MSc with Distinction in Neuroscience from Oxford University. She completed her PhD in Psychology as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

We all know Angela from her book, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” the #1 New York Times best seller, which was the impetus for our first Finding Mastery conversation back in 2016… that’s Episode 029 if you’re looking for it.

I wanted to have Angela back on to discuss her new research on character, and how character development can be actioned to benefit others (and oneself).

As Angela says, the term “character” is used far too vaguely most of the time. She shares the 3 dimensions of character – and – ways to train them.

She is incredibly grounded in the scientific evidence on how character strengths like self-control, curiosity, and gratitude are critically important to social and emotional well-being, physical health, and achievement.

Angela is amazing. Her work is a gift to us all. This conversation, and our friendship for that matter, is a breath of fresh air - life-giving and life-lifting.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I think my whole life's work really might be adding up to increase psychological literacy.
0:06.7	And I know it doesn't solve all the world's problems, but imagine a place where our political
0:11.6	leaders, our industry leaders, our classroom teachers, our neighborhood cops, we're really
0:18.1	just psychologically wise, they understood emotion, they understood when people are insecure,
0:23.8	what happens to us when we do things out of fear.
0:26.8	How do we build these things?
0:27.8	Like, I don't know, it's a pretty great world.
0:29.8	Hey, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast on Michael Jervé.
0:44.4	And by trade and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist, fortunate to work
0:48.3	with some of the most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet.
0:52.4	The whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people.
0:56.6	To pull back the curtain, to explore how these extraordinary have committed to mastering
1:01.2	both their craft and their minds.
1:04.0	And I hope you would recognize that our minds as humans are one of our greatest assets.
1:08.9	If you want to learn more about how you can train your mind, this is just a quick reminder
1:12.3	here, to check out the online psychological training course that we built, where we pulled
1:17.2	together the best practices to meet that unique intersection of the psychology of high
1:22.2	performance and the psychology of well-being.
1:25.0	We walk through 16 essential principles and skills for you to train your mind in the
1:29.1	same way that we train world-class athletes.
1:31.7	You can find all of that at findingmastery.net, Ford slash course.
1:37.9	Finding Mastery is brought to you by Bonn Charge.
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