Grit

“If you read grit, great. It's a great book. I think this new book is just as important.”

“You 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?”

“The other big thing I learned, this was something big I learned from a psychologist from Angela Duckworth who wrote the book Grit and I did a podcast with Angela for a few years.”

“You know, here's another thing that I only learned relatively late in life, and this was a lot through a friend of mine, Angela Duckworth, who wrote the book Grit, and she and I did a podcast together for a couple years called No Stupid Questions.”

“Our 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.”

“so I have a friend Angela Duckworth wrote this book called grit and I made a podcast together for a few years and I learned a great deal from her and she learned a great deal from Marty Seligman”

“So I have a friend Angela Duckworth, who wrote this book called Grit. Yeah. And we made a podcast together for a few years, and I learned a great deal from her, and she learned a great deal from Marty Seligman, who's considered one of the founders of positive psychology.”

“The one thing I will say about that that I learned from my friend Angela Duckworth we became friends because she wrote this book grit and I interviewed her for Freakonomics radio”

“grit and oh man grit every day that is Bosh talking to the author of grit Angela Duckworth”

“It also would seem to be a cross purposes with the notion of grit which is the name of the book written by our mutual friend Angela Duckworth”

“part of my challenge to that argument is is it mostly High status people for instance who read a book like grit in order to help themselves become a little higher status”

“Well, I could make the argument that you are, but part of my challenge to that argument is, is it mostly high-status people, for instance, who read a book like 'Grit' in order to help themselves become a little higher status? Is the research that you're doing around kids in education— is it having the impact that you would like”

“when you were writing grit you were interacting with a lot of high Achievers”

“She's also the author of the wonderful book, Grit.”

“I first interviewed her a few years ago about the book she had just written called Grit.”

“I would actually agree. And I do think that this is not counter to my life's work. I won't have anything to do tomorrow if it's entirely counter. Well, I do know that in your book, Angela, it's passion and persistence, right?”

“To measure grit, Duckworth designed a 12-question survey called the Grit Scale. I abbreviated it to 10 items in the book because I have discovered through personal experience that people are not very good at dividing by 12 to calculate their score.”

“You there's this cool book called Grit. We talked about it a ton here on this podcast and you cite it a bunch.”

“Angela Duckworth, I think we talked about it, has this book called grit and it's also been proven that grit is more likely to make you succeed than IQ.”

“Well, there's this book that came out. I don't know, have you ever read this book the grit book? Angela Duckworth. Duckworth, yeah, exactly.”

“And so I'm like, "What was that book Grit? Angela Duckworth, what was that all about?"”

“The She writes this book and becomes a best seller. You see Keith and boys, they'd be like, "Oh, grit's the most important thing."”

“it's called um there's this awesome book by this woman named Angela Duckworth called grit”

“but a book that I read recently is called grit by Angela Duckworth I think that just resonated with me because of all this we were talking about”

“um so let me just first say that I really don't have any quibble with the book grit I think everybody should go and read it”

“especially I think it's Angela Duckworth and her book grit and the fixed mindset versus growth mindset from Carol dweck”

“You know, there's a great book that I like, Grit by Angela Duckworth. It's a really good book. And she talks a lot about persistence as a predictor of people who've gone on to success”

“did you read grit for that We did read grit for that”

“or really boring non-fiction book about passion and perseverance or or an amazing book called grit”

“there's a book I'd recommend everybody it's called grit by Angela Duckworth”

“I've had some great conversations with like Angela Duckworth who wrote a phenomenal book called, "Grit" about this because my office was right next door to hers when I was at Penn.”

“And that, of course, this led me to study grit. I say, of course, maybe not of course, but for me, the distinction between the quality and quantity of time on task”

“I mean, I didn't write the word willpower into grit, the book. I searched for it and I didn't. I want to have a conversation, a nuanced conversation about what has changed about the science of willpower,”

“So like, after I wrote Grit, I first was disappointed that I didn't think the goal, which was to share something about the nature of human excellence.”

“I know you've read grit and I will tell you Chris there's one chapter I didn't write”

“when 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”

“So the message of the book is not that grit is a good thing in particular. The message of the book is that, like so many other things about us that are good, we can do something to intentionally cultivate grit in ourselves and in others that we care about.”

“And I, in some ways, resisted writing a book because, you know, a scientist is, by training, I think, very cautious about overreaching the data.”

“So the message of the book is not that grit is a good thing in particular. The message of the book is that, like so many other things about us that are good, we can do something to intentionally cultivate grit in ourselves and in others that we care about.”

“Yeah, I'll first say that I wish I knew more as a scientist. And I, in some ways, resisted writing a book because, you know, a scientist is by training, I think, very cautious about overreaching the data.”

“To measure grit, Duckworth designed a 12-question survey called the Grit Scale. I abbreviated it to 10 items in the book because I have discovered through personal experience that people are not very good at dividing by 12 to calculate their score.”

“so I want to talk about grit versus quitting grid of course is a very popular book by psychologist Angela Duckworth who also co-hosts the podcast no stupid questions and her book's about the value of perseverance”

“in 2016 you wrote a book called grit that really touched a nerve in society it became a mega bestseller”

“In 2016, you wrote a book called Grit that really touched a nerve in society. It became a mega bestseller.”

“you've got Angela Duckworth's grit which is all about sticking through and and continuing on and I think anatomy of a breakthrough leans in that direction and then you've got Annie Duke who wrote the book quit”

“That's what Angela Duckworth's been saying now. You know, the perseverance part we've taught them.”

“I grit was a massive book. I don't think that she should lay at the feet of her pen the the the issues of this stuff”

“Angela Duckworth's book grit which is making the case for kind of uh resilience as a psychological trait um is new at number two it's it's a book that has gotten some negative attention”

“Well, how do you teach grit? Well, at our schools, uh we don't just hand kids the book by Angela Duckworth, Grit, and say, "Read this book and write a book report on it." Right? Does that really teach grit?”

“In fact, in your book, you address this. You write about a Reddit post and I want to read this because I personally think if you don't relate to this, what this person wrote on Reddit, you are related to somebody who is living this right now.”

“And I want to read to you from your mega bestseller, Grit. This is on page uh 141. It's in the section on practice. And you're writing about these psychologists who devoted their careers to studying how children learn ag”

“This is on page 149 of your blockbuster bestseller Grit in the section on purpose. Fortunate indeed are those who have a top level goal so consequential to the world that it imbuss everything they do”

“and you know the psychologist Angela Duckworth she took she wrote her book grit and she talked a lot about the importance of grit”

“As one example, at one of the people I interviewed was Angela Duckworth, who literally wrote Grit. So, the book about how to stick with your goals.”

“a book called grid argues that passion and perseverance can make up for lack of talent”

“so um there was this big book in like 20. Angela Duckworth Yes Angela with book um 16 something like that that came out that was that was great It's in every single School in the country everyone loves it like the power of persistence and passion and all that sort of stuff If you look at the studies like”

“We did read Grit for that!”

“I 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”

“Like I mentioned before, she did a TED Talk, and she wrote a book called 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.'”

“Yeah, many, many years ago, my book club flew out to Philadelphia to spend a day with you and talk through grit, right?”

“the 2006 paper which inspired her book grit is called intelligence is not enough”

“in the second half of the show Angela shares that she wrote only one book grit and won't write another because the first nearly killed her”

“A 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.”

“and that's how I discovered your book grit and oh man grit every day that is Bosh talking to the author of grit Angela Duckworth”

“so let's start with grit in 2016 you wrote a book called grit that really touched a nerve in society it became a mega bestseller”

“Professor Duckworth you are known to Advocate the power of grit as the subtitle viewer book puts it the power of passion and perseverance”

“Angela Duckworth would call it grit right what this guy has right like when I read that book all I could think about was Tyson Fury”