When Life's Not Working, Don't Try Harder. Change Your Situation Instead. | Angela Duckworth
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When Life's Not Working, Don't Try Harder. Change Your Situation Instead. | Angela Duckworth

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 2, 20261 hr 4 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

How the people, places, and things around you can bring out your best. Plus, why willpower is unreliable, why AA works for so many people, and where to put your phone. Angela Duckworth is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance and the recently released Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best. In this episode we talk about: W...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. As many of you know, I am very interested in, perhaps too interested in the topic of success. And when we think about success, we often think about things like hard work or luck or smarts or emotional regulation. But I think quite infrequently, I'll speak for myself, do we

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think about your situation, like the people you're surrounded by and your physical location. Turns out there's a bunch of research to show that your situation matters a ton. So how do you influence your situation? That's what my guest is going to talk about today. Said guest is Angela Duckworth. You may know her from her huge bestselling book, Grit. She's

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got a new book out called Situated. She is also a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Angela Duckworth, welcome back to the show. Dan, it's good to be with you again. You made a big name outside of Academic Circles.

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