Dr. Angela Duckworth

Like, who among us wants to, like, have the spinach in their teeth, right?

Like, you know, we all want things to be great.

And so that is an impediment to learning if we will not take those risks and not be awkward and not go through the cringe period, right?

But now you're like day 179 and you're like, uh.

I haven't written a word.

Yeah.

Yes.

Well, first of all, three is not as much of a problem as zero.

I really do think, I mean, if it's physical therapy, if it's, you know, becoming a novelist, I really think if you put in anything,

Right.

Like what happens to most people is that whatever their number is, they're putting in a 10, they're putting in either whatever their numbers, it goes to zero.

And that is the real problem.

Right.

They're out of the game.

And I and I really mean that when Bob Bowman, I'm a little bit obsessed with Bob Bowman and his work.

He was the coach of Bob Bowman was the coach of Michael Phelps and Leon Marchand.

You know, when, when he, when he talks to his swimmers, he says like, you know, every swim practice is like putting a deposit in the bank.

Sometimes you get to put in a dollar.

Sometimes you get to put in 10, maybe rarely get a hundred dollars.

Sometimes it's 10 cents, but guess what?