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#109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior
20 Apr 2021
1hr 3mins
Quote
"Being more interested in what we've done wrong, means we can do more right."
Ideas
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It's not so much nature versus nurture, as it is nature with nurture.
Our situations have an impact on the kind of person we are, as does our personality have an impact on how we act in situations.
After you've been in a job that requires lots of attention to detail, you yourself become more attentive to detail. So your circumstances can shape who you become.
But to have been in that job in the first place, requires certain personality traits.
After you've been in a job that requires lots of attention to detail, you yourself become more attentive to detail. So your circumstances can shape who you become.
But to have been in that job in the first place, requires certain personality traits.
1
It's not so much nature versus nurture, as it is nature with nurture.
Our situations have an impact on the kind of person we are, as does our personality have an impact on how we act in situations.
After you've been in a job that requires lots of attention to detail, you yourself become more attentive to detail. So your circumstances can shape who you become.
But to have been in that job in the first place, requires certain personality traits.
After you've been in a job that requires lots of attention to detail, you yourself become more attentive to detail. So your circumstances can shape who you become.
But to have been in that job in the first place, requires certain personality traits.
2
The number one thing that helps develop confidence is when people overcome something that they have genuinely struggled with.
So the problem to solve for parents, or even for yourself, is finding the right size of challenge for your child or yourself, in the next moment in time.
We often choose challenges that are too big or too small.
We often choose challenges that are too big or too small.
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The number one thing that helps develop confidence is when people overcome something that they have genuinely struggled with.
So the problem to solve for parents, or even for yourself, is finding the right size of challenge for your child or yourself, in the next moment in time.
We often choose challenges that are too big or too small.
We often choose challenges that are too big or too small.
3
Feedback is a gift, but most of us don't know how to unwrap it.
It's not a gift that we usually want to receive at the moment it's given to us and the way it's given to us.
Both figuring out how to wrap the gift of feedback so others are more likely to accept and find value in it, as well as figuring out how to unwrap others gifts of feedback, are skills we can learn.
Both figuring out how to wrap the gift of feedback so others are more likely to accept and find value in it, as well as figuring out how to unwrap others gifts of feedback, are skills we can learn.
3
Feedback is a gift, but most of us don't know how to unwrap it.
It's not a gift that we usually want to receive at the moment it's given to us and the way it's given to us.
Both figuring out how to wrap the gift of feedback so others are more likely to accept and find value in it, as well as figuring out how to unwrap others gifts of feedback, are skills we can learn.
Both figuring out how to wrap the gift of feedback so others are more likely to accept and find value in it, as well as figuring out how to unwrap others gifts of feedback, are skills we can learn.
Questions
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How much of your day are you hyper-conscious about exactly what you're trying to do?
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How much of your day are you hyper-conscious about exactly what you're trying to do?
What else is in the episode
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The underdog mindset and never being content with what you've already achieved.
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The underdog mindset and never being content with what you've already achieved.
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How it's not always about having willpower, changing what situations we're in is another alternative.
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How it's not always about having willpower, changing what situations we're in is another alternative.
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The difference between rules and decisions
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The difference between rules and decisions
Who is Angela Duckworth?
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The founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. As well as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control.
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The founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. As well as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control.
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