Grit
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- Episode: 221. Why Are We So Pessimistic? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 218. Why Do Parents Overshare on Social Media? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsI will say that I probably should have done this more myself; I wrote a lot about my own daughters in Grit before they were old enough to really give me permission to do that, so maybe I should have taken a page out of the Taylor Swift parenting playbook myself.
- Episode: 217. What Happens When You Put on a Costume? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsLike, there was a time where I would read my Amazon reviews—I'm no longer in that time, not just because my book came out a million years ago, but also because I have found it to not be a healthy exercise to read Amazon reviews—good or bad.
- Episode: 215. Is It Okay to Do the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 214. What Does It Take to Survive a Scandal? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 212. When Do You Become an Adult? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 205. Where Do Values Come From? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsWhen you talk about grit, the question of values is, I think, pretty much front and center. But since you, Mike, unlike me, have actually worked in the real world...
- Episode: 204. What Happens When You’re Cut Off From All Human Contact? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsFirst of all, I actually think we would both have a decent chance because I think that you have enormous grit. And I'm not just trying to go off your book.
- Episode: 203. Do You Need a Hug? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 199. What Makes a Good Gathering? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsWe did read Grit for that!
- Episode: 199. What Makes a Good Gathering? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsI will say in the seven years of all these books, no book has come up more frequently in subsequent discussions, whether we're reading science fiction or poetry or about race relations or really boring non-fiction books about passion and perseverance, or an amazing book called Grit, somehow—not that it comes up every time; I'm not overstating it—but it comes up more frequently than any other book.
- Episode: 196. What’s Wrong With Being a Little Neurotic? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 193. Are You as Conscientious as You Think You Are? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsAnd Mike, as you know, I wrote a book on grit.
- Episode: 184. Are You Doing Too Much? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsYeah, I don't know if that accounts for his living to 100, but oh my gosh! He loved grit!
- Episode: 177. What Does Success Look Like? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 569. Do You Need Closure? | Freakonomics Radio
Podcast: Freakonomics RadioAngela, in case you don't know, is a research psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book Grit.
- Episode: 175. Why Is Astrology So Popular? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsYeah, many, many years ago, my book club flew out to Philadelphia to spend a day with you and talk through grit, right?
- Episode: 174. What’s the Point of I.Q. Testing? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: 173. How Important Is Your Choice of Words? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsI once gave a talk on grit for my book tour, and I was very nervous because I had never really given a book tour talk. I was like, 'What the hell is that?'
- Episode: 169. Can We Disagree Better? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsSo, I guess the most personal thing for me would be, you know, in my research on grit, I got very taken with the idea that high achievers are people who are kind of indomitable in their will, and they are obsessive in their pursuit of a single goal. So, what's very hard for me is to then be criticized for this research.
- Episode: 563. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit | Freakonomics Radio
Podcast: Freakonomics RadioOur friend Angela Duckworth, a research psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a book about this. It's called Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
- Episode: Does Your DNA Determine Your Weight? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 163
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: How Do You Deal With Big Life Changes? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 155
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: What Is Fun, Exactly? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 148
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsA few years ago, for my last book, I ended up leaving the world of journalism to play a game for a good chunk of my life. For one year, while I was researching the book, I played a game full-time.
- Episode: Angela Duckworth Explains How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 32
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireIn 2016, you wrote a book called Grit that really touched a nerve in society. It became a mega bestseller.
- Episode: Angela Duckworth Explains How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 32
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI sat down at the table with them, and as the camera started to roll, there was a stack of index cards in front of him that his producer had prepared with questions about my book. He asked me the first question, and I answered it okay, but then he took that stack of index cards and pushed them aside.
- Episode: Angela Duckworth Explains How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 32
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireWhen I wrote Grit, I thought to myself, well, I guess I'll just try to explain without jargon things that psychological scientists would be able to appreciate with jargon. But I have to say it was the most intellectually challenging thing I had done because I had to put things together without the artifice of jargon.
- Episode: Why Is It So Hard to Resist Temptation? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 130
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsYou know, I remember when the editor and literary agent convinced me to write Grit.
- Episode: This Is Your Brain on Pollution (Update) | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 472
Podcast: Freakonomics RadioAngela Duckworth is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; she's the author of the book 'Grit' and she is my co-host on the no stupid questions podcast, which you should also be listening to.
- Episode: What’s the Best Advice You’ve Ever Received? (Replay) | No Stupid Questions | Episode 65
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsI'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Stephen Dubner and you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
- Episode: How Contagious Is Behavior? With Laurie Santos of "The Happiness Lab" | No Stupid Questions | Ep 63
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 100
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsIt's G-R-I-T, but the point is, oftentimes in these very short interactions with strangers, it seems to me like there's a familiarity. It's like, 'Oh my gosh, are you Angela?'
- Episode: Why Are Rich Countries So Unhappy? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 120
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: Are Women Really Less Happy Than Men? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 97
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsResearch psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one.
- Episode: Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead on Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
Podcast: The Daily StoicYou should probably read Angela Duckworth's book, *Grit*, if you're going to take on that challenge because there are going to be headwinds and hopefully just hills to climb and not mountains. That must have been part of your experience, right?