Dr. Angela Duckworth

Maybe it's five days a week.

I mean, let's take physical therapy, something I do a lot of because I have scoliosis and I've got lots of orthopedic issues.

So I get to experience, you know, behavior change, which is what I study as a scientist through my own just like personal life and trying to get…

So I have to do my physical therapy and there's like different exercises that I have to do, but not all of them are seven days a week exercises.

There is a routine.

Whatever it is that you want to do, whatever consistency means to you, write it down and aim for that.

And that's what the goal is.

But what I mean by it not being intensity is it's not like, I'm going to go do my physical therapy and I'm going to do 11 out of 10 on intensity.

Like, I'm going to kill it.

No, just...

Do your physical therapy the way your physical therapist said you should do it and then do it again the next day as your physical therapist.

And then do it again and then do it again.

That's consistency.

I have not heard that quote.

We use it in so many ways.

And this is how I think we are really defining it, even if we don't, you know, have a dictionary at our side.

Talent is the rate at which you improve at something when you try.

You're a really talented person, you improve a lot for every hour of practice.

If you are a less talented person, you improve only a very little bit with every hour of practice.

There is no shame or fear, I think, in acknowledging that we may be more talented at some things than others.