Episode-by-episode discussion of Grit by Angela Duckworth — passion plus perseverance, and why talent is the smallest part of the story. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Mindset Podcasts.
3 episodes listed below. All 29 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
Season two opens outside the home. The surprising strength of the evidence on sticking with one activity for more than a year, and what a sports team or an orchestra teaches that a classroom cannot.
Duckworth on grit as something a group can install in a person — the Seahawks, the Finnish idea of sisu, West Point again — and the uncomfortable truth that the fastest way to get grittier is to join people who already are.
The series finale. Duckworth answers her critics honestly: grit is not a substitute for opportunity, it is not a reason to blame people for their circumstances, and it is not the only thing that matters. What is actually worth taking away.
We discuss it chapter by chapter, but nothing replaces reading it. This is an Amazon affiliate link — it costs you nothing extra and it helps pay for the show.
29 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
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