Angela Duckworth

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490 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles · World-Leading Psychologist: How to Change Your Life by Changing What’s Around You | Angela Duckworth - EP 814 · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

I don't think a lot of people have heard about it outside of academia, but it's all about how the person is one thing and their situation is another. matched

So, John, I think you and I both believe in matched

grit in passion and perseverance, but I think increasingly it's urgent to remind people or to explain how the outside situation changes that whole inner landscape. matched

And whether you are optimistic or discouraged, whether you think your work is interesting and that you matter or you think the opposite is not just a function. matched

Of what's inside you, it's also a function of where you are. matched

You're supposed to be asking me the questions, and I know we just got started, but you have been thinking about the very same topic as I have been thinking about. matched

for a very long time. matched

Why do you think it is, like in your opinion, John, why is it that we turn our eyes away from our circumstances and look within when we're trying to do better? matched

Turn the tables on you right away. matched

Yeah, I think some professors, including myself, talk about situational awareness, right? matched

Just to matched

develop that muscle of paying attention to the situational factors. matched

A mistake I've made as a still developing situational leader. matched

I mean, I'm hardly a leader, right? matched

I run a little lab. matched

I'm not running a company or an organization of any matched

Real size, but there's still young people who work for me and a situational mistake I make as a leader, but I'm working on it, is when a young person shows up late, isn't taking notes, maybe goes on their phone in a meeting. matched

I call them out right there and like, you were late. matched

Where's the agenda? matched

What are you doing on your phone? matched

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