Grit

“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.”

“I mean, I don't know if I should confess to this, but it was very clear to me when I wrote 'Grit' that what made the idea interesting is that we had a view that what makes somebody great at what they do is talent.”

“Research 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.”

“I 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.”

“Like, 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.”

“Research 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.”

“Research 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.”

“Research 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.”

“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.”

“My point is that Paul D podesta called me about grit. I think he had just some curiosity; it was only one conversation, we didn't talk after this, but I think he was thinking like a lot of people in sports are thinking, which is, you know, how do I pick the next player and how do I get this”

“When 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...”

“First 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.”

“Research 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.”

“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.'”

“Research 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.”

“And Mike, as you know, I wrote a book on grit.”

“Yeah, I don't know if that accounts for his living to 100, but oh my gosh! He loved grit!”

“Research 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.”

“Angela, in case you don't know, is a research psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book Grit.”

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

“Research 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.”

“I 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?'”

“Angela shares that she wrote only one book, Grit, and won't write another because the first nearly killed her; she is now in the middle of writing her second book.”

“So, 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”

“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.”

“Research 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.”

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

“Research 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.”

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

“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”

“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 I'm curious why you think that is, based on your knowledge of the psychological research from this project you're working on now, this new book about self-control.”

“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”

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

“I 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.”

“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 because I had to put things together without the artifice of jargon.”

“You know, I remember when the editor and literary agent convinced me to write Grit.”

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

“Angela 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.”

“Research 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.”

“I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Stephen Dubner and you're listening to No Stupid Questions.”

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

“It'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?'”

“Research 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.”

“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”

“Research 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.”

“it is hosted by me and Angela Duckworth who teaches psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and she wrote the book grit the power of passion and perseverance”

“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”

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

“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?”

“so you're a professor of psychology university of pennsylvania and you're author of an amazing book called grit the power and passion of 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”