Dr. Angela Duckworth

This is true of, you know, musicians, chefs, you know, anybody who becomes great at what they do.

There's curiosity, right?

Their mind...

comes to this subject and wants to stay there right and when you look at children and you ask yourself whatever age you are you could see like where is this mind going right i mean there are people who say oh i'm not intellectual oh i'm not really smart when you start talking about something that you really care about you are a genius because that is where your mind lives

So that is the first psychological asset.

And it happens, you know, usually, well, we hope in childhood, meaning you do have to be exposed to things.

I think great parenting, a lot of it is noticing what your young person is thinking about.

When my daughter Lucy was growing up, I will tell you that this child was not obviously a hard worker.

She was...

easily discouraged.

She really hated doing homework or practicing her, you know, viola.

But when I would get the iPad after she, you know, had, you know, run off with it,

all of the tabs were open to baking videos, right?

Like unicorn cookies and like chocolate, chocolate cupcakes.

And on Monday, Lucy would be telling me what she was going to bake on Saturday.

She would pull my cookbooks off the shelf and start reading them, you know, well before you usually do that kind of thing.

One day I said to her, I was like, Lucy, I think you're interested in cooking.

And she looked at me like I was, you know, from planet Mars.

I was like, oh, what do you mean?

I was like,