Dr. Angela Duckworth

Oh, okay.

And I had heard— There are many beautiful flowers here, by the way.

I asked you if it was a special occasion, and you said no.

You're here.

It is.

You're here.

Well, okay.

Wait a minute.

wait a minute, why don't I do it?

Why don't you do it?

But let me also give you permission to not take every problem in the world on your shoulders.

And one of the things, you know, I don't want to generalize to all women, but I will speak as a woman.

And I will just say as a confession that, you know, a lot of my life, I did a lot of public service, right?

So when I was in high school and especially in college, I mean, there was a point in college that I literally spent more hours doing public service than I was

in the lecture hall or the lab because I was a neurobiology major.

So many, many, many hours.

And I will tell you that I think I had one thing very wrong.

I felt like the more tired you were, the better.

The more ought and should drove your motivation, the better.

In some ways, the less happy you were...