Dr Emily Musgrove

Dr Duckworth has found the most common characteristic amongst elite performers, high achievers, very successful people, is this characteristic of grit.

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.

This is actually not about natural ability.

This is about how we grow.

So we have to uncover our interests in order to become gritty at something.

Talent is in some ways useless if we're not putting in the hard work.

I guess this kind of great question we have is like, can I have this voice?

Am I willing to have the pain and still head in the direction that's deeply meaningful to me?

It's a pleasure to be here.

I'm very good.

Yes, I'm feeling excited about life.

Oh, I love doing this, I have to say.

Oh, it actually really ties into what we're going to talk about today, but we'll come to that in a minute.

But actually, yeah, I love researching.

I love learning.

It makes me feel really excited.

And I've also realised too that we don't really like earnestness.

As a culture.

And I really am feeling so earnest about life.

Well, I think, you know, this is probably going off script here.