Angela Duckworth
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490 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Angela Duckworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So that is partly the legacy of our situations, right?
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So part of what we think today is because of the situations we were in in the past.
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But one very interesting feature, I'll go out on a limb here and say what I think.
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I think very often.
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Psychologists today are like, wait, let me just narrowly say something about this one particular finding.
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But I am a student of human nature, and I will go out on a limb and say that our current situation has more influence on what we think than our past situations.
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And there's a very famous psychologist that no one's heard of.
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Well, very few.
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His name is Michael Lewis.
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A lot of people have heard of Michael Lewis, the prolific.
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An amazing writer.
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But this is not the Michael Lewis who wrote the big short and money ball.
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This is Michael Lewis, the developmental psychologist.
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And
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He made the compelling claim that, of course, as a developmental psychologist, people always would ask, what is the influence of like where you were when you were three or four on the man or the woman you are today?
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And they were waiting for the answer, oh, enormous.
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Like wherever you were at three or four, whether you had an attachment style that was secure or parents who were this way or that way.
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Well, that's how you can explain your middle-aged self.
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And he argued that your current situation.
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exerts dramatically more influence.
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