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Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158
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Angela Duckworth is a psychologist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and an author. Expect to learn what Angela has learned about her worldview since writing GRIT, if removing friction from your life is making you weaker, how important physical environments are and when to change them, how to know whether you have an environmental problem or a willpower one, how to engineer your environment to enhance grit and much more… Sponsors: Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get up to 20% of...
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People of the UK and Ireland, if you want to come and see me live, tickets are very limited for my live tour this October, but they are still available. Dublin is already sold out. However, if you're a fan of modern wisdom, if you love psychology, philosophy, human nature, personal development, and you want to hear stories that I definitely can't tell on the internet, then come and see me live this October. Chris Williamson.live has got all of the tickets. Dublin is completely gone, but there are limited tickets everywhere else. I'll see you soon. Chris Williamson.live
You wrote one of the defining personal development books of the decades. I wrote it 10 years ago. What's changed in your worldview since then? Well, as a psychologist, I really did spend the first half of my career trying to understand
the importance of individual effort to achieving excellence. And I wrote a book about it. And I recently reread that book, and I wanted to know whether I changed my mind. I mean, you know, I continue to do science,
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