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Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Want More Love, Happiness and Success? Cultivate Grit. | E57

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7890 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Could there be a "magic bullet" to creating the positive outcomes you desire? Well, kind of...    We all want the good stuff: Health, happiness, secure relationships, a meaningful career and money in the bank. The billion-dollar self help industry is evidence enough that we’re seeking solutions to make things happen. But — what if we’ve been wasting our energy chasing after "tools?" What if by focusing our efforts on only one or two core skills: Grit and Self Control, we can create the life we want?    That’s what new research is suggesting. About ten years ago, Dr. Angela Duckworth started with one simple question: Why do some kids do better than others in school? Her subsequent research blew the top off our traditional understanding about why some kids succeed while others fail. To sum up the findings, it’s not about intelligence, socio-economic status, or environment. Kids who did well academically did so because they persevered through adversity, and were able to control short term impulses in favor of long term goals.    In recent years, Dr. Duckworth and her fellow researchers have been extending her original research, and seeking to understand the relationships between Grit, Self-Control, and a host of positive outcomes. It seems that everything from stable marriages, to feeling happy to financial security can be mediated by these variables.    Kind of a big deal.   So today on the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast I’m so honored to be speaking with David Meketon a former teacher and school administrator who works with Dr. Duckworth. He’s going to be talking more about the research behind Grit and Self Control, and also provide us with some practical strategies that we can use to develop these qualities in ourselves.

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0:00.0

This is Dr. Lisa Marie-Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

0:06.8

And that's our Bernstein.

0:25.3

The song is soundtrack to the movie True and Rit with John Wayne, an American classic.

0:32.4

Check it out.

0:33.6

And so I'm playing that song because today on the Love, Happiness, and Success podcast,

0:38.8

I am speaking with David Mechaton from the Duckworth Labs about research on grit.

0:46.1

And grit is that ability to persevere, overcome obstacles.

0:51.3

And of course, Duckworth Labs is founded by Angela Duckworth has done so much amazing research in this field

0:59.5

we're going to be talking about this on today's program but first of all why is grit important

1:06.2

grit is important because we all want the good stuff, right?

1:11.5

We want the cherries on top.

1:12.9

We want health and happiness and secure relationships, a good career, money in the bank.

1:19.9

And I know that we're going to make a big thing.

1:24.4

Okay, so a successful business is hard.

1:28.6

We get it.

1:29.4

Sure. You may be spending money to bring traffic to your website.

1:32.0

But most visitors just grow, click, and leave.

1:35.2

And never come back.

1:36.0

Oh my gosh, have a better career.

1:37.5

To grow.

1:38.0

Businesses need to build and maintain relationships with people interested in their product or service.

1:42.3

Yeah.

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