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A Better You with Coach Caroline
A podcast hosted by Caroline Adams Miller
Duration: 14:11 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 32 KBPS - Frequency: 22050 HZ
Angela L. Duckworth, Ph.D
This is “must” listening for anyone who wants to know why talent isn’t enough in life, and why cultivating grit can mean the difference between success and failure.
To email Angela or visit her webpage, here are the links:
duckwort@psych.upenn.edu (email)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/
Angela L. Duckworth, Ph.D is working closely with Marty Seligman, PhD at the University of Pennsylvania to study the quality of “grit” and how it relates to well-being and goal accomplishment in life. The grit research has included studying cadets at West Point and finalists in the National Spelling Bee to see how this quality of persistence in the attainment of long-term goals relates to achievement. The newly-developed Grit Scale has been found to be a predictor of who drops out of West Point during the initial brutal summer initiation, as well as who finals in the National Spelling Bee, among other interesting findings, which will be published in a major psychology journal in 2007. To take the Grit Scale and get your own score, visit: www.authentichappiness.org and register for a free account. “Psychology Today” also did a cover story in 2006 about the grit research, and it gives an excellent overview of who has grit, how Angela came to study it, and what the implications of this research are.
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