When Life's Not Working, Don't Try Harder. Change Your Situation Instead. | Angela Duckworth

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. As many of you know, I am uh very interested in Perhaps too interested in uh uh the topic of success. And when we think about success, we often think about things like hard work or luck or or smarts or emotional regulation But I think quite infrequently, I'll I'll speak for myself, w do we think about um uh your situation, like the people you're surrounded by and your physical location. Turns out there's a bunch of research to show that your situation matters a ton. So how do you influence your situation? That's what my guest is gonna talk about today. Said guest is Angela Duckworth. You may know her from her huge best selling book, Grit. She's got a new book out called Situated. She is also a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Angela Duckworth, welcome back to the show. Dan, it's good to be with you again. You made a big name outside of academic circles. You already had a big name in academic circles when you wrote a book called Grit. Um, you gave a TED talk on it, you published a bunch of research on it. Chapter one in this new book, which again is called Situated, uh is called, I believe, Beyond Grit. So what it what's that all about? I studied high achievers from my very first day of graduate school and and my first preoccupation with them was everything that they have in their heads that that makes them different. You know, who wins multiple gold medals over multiple Olympics? I mean who who takes home Yeah, the Grammy, the Oscar. And I really wanted to know psychologically.

What is different about their mindsets, their habits, the way they Organized their goals. And Ай стіль болів. In all of that, Dan, I still believe that there is an inside game.

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