What Grit Really Teaches Us About Happiness with Professor Angela Duckworth

Do you think that society is is moving toward the direction of like selflessness, of belonging? I have empirical evidence. You and I have careers. You and I should not have careers. There should be no demand for our work.

We talk about trust, we talk about cooperation, and there should be no demand for our work. But the fact that people are interested in the things that we're putting in the world, that are some of the guidance that we can help offer towards getting to that ideal that we imagine proves that people are hungry for this. Five years from now, we'll revisit the conversation. We'll see. how it went, and in the meanwhile we'll try to like, you know, tilt the odds in in the direction.

I promise to have you back on the old pod in five years. Every now and then I have a guest where we talk about everything. And everything seems to be really, really interesting. Angela Duckworth is one of those guests. She's a professor of psychology at UPen MacArthur Genius Award winner, and probably the reason most of us know her, the best-selling author of the book.

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