Dr. Angela Duckworth

And I was like, okay, you don't have to run track anymore.

Okay.

You only have eight more weeks to go.

So we did not let our kids quit in the middle of a commitment.

I love that rule.

We're like, you are Duckworth.

We finish what we begin.

But the third part was all about sampling.

The third part said that nobody gets to choose your hard thing but you.

And we never chose any of the hard things for our two daughters.

Jason and I said, you know, life is a multiple choice.

It's not quite film.

She wanted to do horseback riding.

And we were like, we are not that rich and we don't live near horses.

So there was some...

you know, reality to the childhoods that they lived, but we really tried to let them sample as many things as possible.

And, you know, I knew as a psychologist at the time, you know, getting my PhD and so forth, I knew that that was our only prayer for this girl to be gritty, is that we absolutely had to find something that interested her.

Yes.

When I teach a class at the University of Pennsylvania, it's a little Ivy League school in Philadelphia.

And the first section of this class, which is called Grit Lab, the whole class is called Grit Lab.