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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But in the 60s, there were these humanist psychologists who felt strongly from their clinical practice, seeing people who were depressed, seeing people who are anxious, seeing people who are suicidal.
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They felt like one of the things that is so critical to every person's well being
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Is a sense that unconditionally they have worth, that they matter, not because of what they did, not because of some meritocratic race.
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And this is not to say that
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They were against a meritocracy in terms of society, but they just felt like the kind of unconditional positive regard that some of us had when we were growing up from our parents.
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Some of us felt in our religious faith that God loved us, no matter whether we did well that day or we didn't do that well.
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And I think they were right.
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I actually think this age-old idea.
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Maybe
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partly from psychological science, but partly from
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religious traditions and other philosophical traditions that human beings stand on their own.
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When I was growing up, John, I had this aunt and uncle.
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I never really learned to speak Chinese.
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So I called my aunt Shawaii, which is a terrible pronunciation of what it should be in Chinese, which is little auntie.
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And then her husband, who is my uncle, for some reason when I was little, I called him big man 'cause he was
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Well, he was big to me.
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I later realized he's not that big of a man.
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But Shawaian Big Man.
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gave me the one thing that I think has been
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the source of my confidence for the rest of my life.
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