How to turn grit into a lifelong habit | Angela Duckworth

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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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. Listen and subscribe to The TED Interview and more podcasts from the TED Audio Collective at .

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth focuses her work on grit, a trait crucial to success and often more important than IQ. We know we need it, but how do we develop it and have grit throughout our lives? In her TED interview conversation with Chris Anderson,
0:23.4	she'll shut some light.
0:24.4	If you like what you hear, find the TED interview wherever you're listening to this.
0:35.2	Hello, hello. Welcome to the TED interview. I'm Chris Anderson. So I have a hunch that today's
0:42.1	conversation may strike you as kind of extraordinary. We're talking about ideas that could actually
0:48.8	change how we manage our lives, how we reach that extra level, if you like.
0:55.2	That's because I'm talking today with Angela Lee Duckworth.
0:58.9	She's a psychologist who has dedicated her career to understanding one of life's most consequential questions.
1:06.0	What does it take to be successful?
1:08.6	I don't just mean successful in the financial sense, but successful in
1:12.7	whatever way you want to define it. Why does one person realize their goals while another doesn't?
1:19.4	What really makes the difference? So after years of studying this, what she found went in the
1:25.9	face of what I think so many of us instinctually believe.
1:29.2	This is how she explained it at TED all the way back in 2013.
1:33.6	The one thing we know how to measure best is IQ.
1:38.5	But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily.
1:48.9	I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings. And in every study,
1:55.3	my question was, who is successful here and why? My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy.
2:03.5	We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out.
2:09.4	We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition.
2:16.6	We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods, asking which teachers are
2:22.9	still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year.
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