How Your Situation Shapes You (with Angela Duckworth)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is October fifth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is author and psychologist. Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania. This is her third appearance on the program. She was last year. in march of twenty twenty two.

Her latest book is Situated. Find the people and places that bring out your best. Which is our topic for today. Angela, welcome back to Ecom Talk. Russ, it's good to be with you again. Uh what's the main idea of situated?

The main idea of situated is that The power of the situation, the Forces. That are exerted on you.

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