Angela Duckworth
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490 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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The situation, America, revealed the grit, the intelligence, the talent that my parents had.
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But I think it also changes us.
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So my answer is both and because when you put a person in a situation where their effort pays off.
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Something happens to that person.
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That person wants to work harder.
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They have seen the fruit of their labors.
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That opportunity
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that creates a better future for you, there's nothing more motivating.
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And so I think that situations really have a double effect on us, both in terms of revealing all of the capabilities that we have and actually enhancing our capabilities over time because they really unlock, I think, a level of motivation that
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You know, i is only available to us if we are in a great situation.
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That probably brought tears to your eyes just like to fathom.
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That was the first time somebody actually cared about what was in his head.
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I have a parallel story from my graduate student.
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Now she's a professor at Kellogg, the school of business at Northwestern, and her name is Lauren Escross Winkler.
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When she was a Ph student, she went to a school.
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And she was testing an intervention where you asked young people what their advice was for doing better in school.
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And that was the whole intervention.
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It was just like, hey, what's your advice to other kids about how to do well?
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And she asked everyone.
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It wasn't like, oh, let's go to the gifted and talented questions, let's go to the honors classes.
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