Indira Lakshmanan
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50 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
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Just do it isn't just Nike's marketing slogan.
We have a cultural obsession with mind over matter.
Society tells us that all it takes to overcome limits is determination and willpower.
In her 2016 global bestseller Grit, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth argued that passion and perseverance are the engines of achievement.
A decade later, she's back with a change of heart.
Grit is necessary, but it's not enough.
The secret to success is not white knuckling your way through adversity, but changing the situation you're in.
Her new book is called Situated.
Angela Duckworth, welcome to Here and Now.
Thank you, Indira.
Happy to be with you.
So, Angela, you open your new book with a terrifying story.
You took your 86-year-old mother snorkeling, and you were both swept away by a powerful ocean current.
Your mom almost drowned.
Tell us why this is the central metaphor for your book.
All right.
Well, 10 years after writing Grit, you now say our success or failure depends as much on the people around us and our environment as it does on ourselves.
Tell us how you were influenced by Stanford professor James Gross.
So, in fact, it's sort of taking us back from the step where we have the temptation, should I eat that chocolate sundae?
And it's putting yourself in a position where there is no chocolate sundae in front of you in the first place.
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