Masters of Scale · 2026-09-03 · 37 min · 6,724 words

Angela Duckworth on why grit isn’t enough

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Hey folks, Jeff Berman here. I'm thrilled to share some of the new names who will be joining us at this year's Masters of Scale summit. This may be our biggest stage yet. Reed Hastings, Meredith Whitaker, Van Jones, Amjad Masad, and more. Will be there with us October twentieth through twenty second in San Francisco. If you're building something great. Or you want to build something great.

We want you there with us, too. Join us at masters of scale dot com slash apply twenty six. That's mastersofscom slash apply. Twenty six. When human beings think about what determines behaviour.

They think intentions determine behavior. That's not wrong, but what social psychologists will point out is that we make an error when we forget about how powerful the situation is. I was astonished. I have never seen. In all of my years of studying companies, a culture. Where Unvarnished

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