How to Turn Grit Into a Lifelong Habit | Angela Duckworth | The TED Interview
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🗓️ 5 June 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to persevere and succeed, not just in our careers but in all aspects of our lives? For psychologist Angela Duckworth, the answer can be summed up in one concept: grit. She explains the ingredients in grit and the experiences that make one person persist where another gives up — and offers concrete steps to instill grit early in life and sustain it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, David here. This is something a little different today. We're sharing an episode from the |
| 0:04.5 | Ted interview podcast. The host, Chris Anderson, you might have heard just a while ago right here, |
| 0:10.0 | talking about how to give a great speech. Chris has been head of Ted for many years now, |
| 0:14.9 | and in this podcast, he sits down with some truly fascinating thinkers to dive even deeper |
| 0:19.7 | in ideas than is possible in a short Ted talk. A few recent guests include Jacqueline Novogratz |
| 0:25.4 | on what it really takes to make lasting global change, and Simon Sinek on why work isn't going |
| 0:31.6 | back to normal, and how we can get ready for that. This conversation features psychologist Angela |
| 0:36.8 | Duckworth, and I think you'll find it really helpful. If you want to hear more, you can find and |
| 0:41.5 | follow the Ted interview wherever you're listening to this. |
| 0:44.1 | Hello, hello. Welcome to the Ted interview. I'm Chris Anderson. So I have a hunch that today's |
| 0:55.6 | conversation may strike you as kind of extraordinary. We're talking about ideas that could actually |
| 1:02.4 | change how we manage our lives, how we reach that extra level if you like. That's because I'm |
| 1:09.7 | talking today with Angela Lee Duckworth. She's a psychologist who has dedicated her career to |
| 1:15.2 | understanding one of life's most consequential questions. What does it take to be successful? |
| 1:22.1 | I don't just mean successful in the financial sense, but successful in whatever way you want |
| 1:27.2 | to define it. Why does one person realize their goals? Why another doesn't? What really makes the |
| 1:34.2 | difference? So after years of studying this, what she found went in the face of what I think so many |
| 1:40.5 | of us instinctually believe. This is how she explained it at Ted all the way back in 2013. |
| 1:47.2 | The one thing we know how to measure best is IQ. But what if doing well in school and in life |
| 1:56.5 | depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily? I started studying kids and |
| 2:04.3 | adults in all kinds of super challenging settings. And in every study my question was, who is |
| 2:10.5 | successful here and why? My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried to |
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