Angela Duckworth Now Thinks "Grit" Wasn't the Whole Story

Ам Руф Скомдес із Занецьк Бігадія. Today, why changing your situation may be the fastest way to change yourself. Ten years ago, Angela Duckworth became one of the world's most influential psychologists by making the case for grit. Though talent matters, she argued that it's passion and perseverance that turn potential into achievement. Now she's back with a new book called Situated that complicates this picture.

Though written a decade after Grit, she says it could be thought of as a prequill. Before you ask more of yourself, create a situation that makes your effort easier, more effective, and more likely to compound. There's a substantial body of research supporting this idea, as you'll hear in our conversation, but for Angela, it's also deeply personal. She and her husband Jason were both lifelong strivers, they still are, who succeeded by trying harder until during a brutal period of career stress and young parenthood, trying harder nearly destroyed their marriage. Their breakthrough was realizing that they didn't necessarily need to become tougher people. They needed to change their situation, most critically by embedding themselves more deeply in collaborative communities. That insight ultimately extends far beyond productivity to parenting, friendship, marriage, work, even identity itself. Діф сифр верзин в ічвас.

So today, Angela Duckworth on why grit still matters, but why the people in places around us Maybe even more important. By the way, you'll notice that the format of this episode is a little different. The conversation was recorded as a live Zoom call with more than eighty members of the next big idea club community. who were invited to ask Angela their own questions in the second half.

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