Life of Meaning- Podcast #605
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Todd and Cathy discuss a Freakonomics interview with Angela Duckworth about self-esteem, and what it takes to raise children who feel empowered. They also discuss how we can find meaning in our experiences, and the difference between heeding and exceeding limits.
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| 0:00.0 | do do do do do do we go my name's Todd |
| 0:08.0 | this is Kathy welcome back to another episode of Zen parenting radio this is podcast |
| 0:12.1 | number 605 why listen to Zen parenting radio because you'll feel outstanding |
| 0:17.5 | and always remember our motto which is the best predictor of a child's well-being |
| 0:21.2 | is a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:24.2 | On today's show, |
| 0:25.6 | I pulled up a few clips from an interview I heard |
| 0:28.8 | on a podcast called People I Mostly Admiar, |
| 0:32.3 | which is an off-branch podcast of the Freakonomics podcast. |
| 0:37.1 | And the guy, the interviewer, I forget his name, but I'll pull it up, interviewed. |
| 0:43.7 | Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:44.6 | Thank you, sweetie. |
| 0:45.6 | Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:47.0 | Which we actually talked about her a few podcasts ago. |
| 0:50.3 | But there were some things in this, because she's the person who kind of she's the one who did her |
| 0:58.1 | research about grit and brought that more mainstream and we also we discussed she how |
| 1:06.2 | she has helped us redefine what she meant by her research because a lot of people took grit |
| 1:12.0 | and ran with it in a direction of never give up. |
| 1:15.7 | And it's much more nuanced than that. |
| 1:18.8 | And the discussion that, you know, Todd is going to share actually goes in a lot of different |
| 1:25.1 | directions. |
| 1:26.2 | It's grit is kind of the, there's like an underlying, |
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