Dr. Angela Duckworth
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 13 Oct
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Is there anything harder than writing?
No, it's like, you know, obviously you could just, you know, go and like write.
watch a cooking show on YouTube, right?
Like that would be to me a lot more fun in the moment than like really working on this paragraph or figuring out the structure of a chapter.
So there is an element of hard work that is, you know, part and parcel of excellence.
But I think we get confused because we're like, oh, I guess that's the whole thing.
No, no, no, no.
The first thing to do is choose easy.
Then, you know, work as hard as you can.
But I think we just push them together.
I think that to me is my best guess.
I mean, I don't have any data on this, but it's just my instinct that we, or my intuition that we get a little confused because, you know, to us, it's all one thing when it's really two stages.
I agree.
I actually agree.
Yes.
I got a call from a McKinsey consultant.
I'll never forget this.
This is, oh my gosh, Mel.
At least 10 years ago, 15, could be 20, this McKinsey consultant from San Francisco calls me.
And I guess it was at a time where I wasn't getting that many calls, so I just answered.
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