Dr. Angela Duckworth
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That somebody's gifted at basketball or gifted at soccer or gifted at math or anything else.
And of course I got better.
Yes.
And I bet when you started, you didn't know everything you know now, but my guess is that you learned fast.
Right.
Because you said it's about the rate of improving.
Yeah.
Say your rate is not what you would love it to be, but it's not that bad.
You're like, you know, I'm not the...
smartest kid in this room.
I'm not the fastest learner in this room.
But you can say, as so many people that I have studied, so many women, so many men, you will not outwork me.
Like, give me a chance.
I am going to stay on this treadmill.
I mean, you know, very appropriately, the Harvard University study of, there's this longitudinal study.
I know you've had Robert Waldenberger on.
It's
You know, broadly, it's part of that work.
They like literally put their participants, they were all men.
This was an old study.