The Power of Passion and Perseverance with Angela Duckworth

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

You might know my next guest from her bestselling book Grit. Its sold millions of copies and stayed on the bestseller lists for hundreds of weeks.

If you're not familiar with her work, Angela is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. Her TED talk is among the most-viewed of all time.

If you're a note taker of these episodes, get ready. Angela drops so much gold. Some of the topics we cover:

* how passion and perseverance are key components of grit

* how to uncover what your area of passion

* the benefits of sampling before you specialize.

* and so much more....

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	One of my favorite character traits, maybe even one of my favorite words, is the word
0:09.8	grit. I think it embodies so many things that I find valuable that I relate to, that I
0:16.9	try and embody and I look to others who have this sort of resilience and toughness and perseverance
0:24.4	and a passion for whatever it is that they endeavor toward.
0:30.3	And I like this word so much that I actually, when my grandmother passed, I used this
0:36.1	as the centerpiece for, used the word grit as the centerpiece for my, my, passed, I used this as the centerpiece for, used the word grit as the
0:39.3	centerpiece for my, my, my, um, my speech. And, you know, my grandma embodied, I do think it is a,
0:46.7	is a characteristic that is so admirable and rarely understood, rarely defined until Angela Duckworth came along.
0:56.2	If you're not familiar with her or if you love her work, this podcast is going to rock your world.
1:01.9	She is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, the founder
1:06.8	and CEO of Character Lab, which is a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific
1:11.0	insights that help kids thrive. She's a MacArthur genius. If you know what that is, that's
1:15.3	insane. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 20 million times. She's the co-host of No Stupid
1:21.1	Questions podcast. And what I know her best as and likely you as well.
1:28.2	She is the bestselling author, a book that sold, I think, more than 10 million copies,
1:33.3	hundreds of weeks at the New York Times list, the book Grit.
1:37.0	She wrote it.
1:38.0	And it is amazing.
1:40.7	And what we're going to talk about today, passion, perseverance, how those are key components of grit, what it means to pursue those things as a prime mode of being. And she links grit as the defining characteristic. I may be putting some words
2:02.5	in her mouth here, but I think I'm speaking accurately as the defining characteristic that unites
2:08.5	world-class performers on all sorts of stages. And she's, you know, analyzed cadets at military academies and researchers and gamers and like everything
2:22.8	under the sun and this concept of grit, resilience, the willingness to keep going and to
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