What podcasts say about Angela Duckworth
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What Angela Duckworth has said on podcasts
22 statements · 9 positive · 9 negative · 2 mixed · 2 neutral
Becoming great requires consistent effort over time.
“there is a final common path to becoming great that requires consistency over time”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:02
Treating effort as everything and always trying harder is dangerous.
“effort is everything. If it's not working, try harder. I think is dangerous.”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 4:19
Highly successful people arrange their lives to reduce reliance on willpower.
“highly successful people are doing exactly what you said, which is they're arranging their lives so they don't need to use willpower”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 12:26
Relying on willpower is an ineffective way to change behavior.
“don't wait for willpower. That's the worst way to change human behavior.”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 14:07
Being rushed substantially reduces seminarians’ likelihood of helping someone.
“it has a massive effect on whether they stop and help the person who needs help”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 17:16
Grit is necessary but insufficient for Michael Phelps’s excellence.
“grit is essential and how grit is not enough”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 19:26
People generally achieve personal goals more successfully within groups.
“you'll be more successful on average if you do that in a flock, as part of a tribe”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 27:25
Students who gave advice to others subsequently improved their grades.
“their grades went up”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 33:37
Modern society’s default settings are harmful, especially through isolation and phone use.
“I don't think the default settings of the modern world are good”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 36:36
Mentorship by an award-winning scientist raises award-winning scientist likelihood two- to fourfold.
“your likelihood of becoming, for example, an award-winning scientist is 2 times to 4 times larger if you're mentored by an award-winning scientist”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 39:29
Excellence requires grit plus agency to move into better situations.
“you need grit, but you also need to have the agency to navigate into better and better situations”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 46:31
Overreliance on grit while neglecting situational change can worsen burnout.
“the danger of only thinking that grit is your superpower and also being ashamed or negligent of the change of the situation that would make things better”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 48:39
Burnout cannot be overcome through willpower alone; situational change is required.
“You cannot will yourself to not be burned out. You cannot think yourself out of burnout. You have to change the situation”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 55:32
Burnout is recoverable and is not a permanent personal characteristic.
“the prognosis is good”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 55:38
Grit is not simply forcing oneself to act.
“I don't think the grit muscle is a voice that says, just do it”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:06:29
Excellence requires hard work, but environments can make that work easier.
“you can't take the hard work out of excellence, but you can make hard work easier”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:14:55
Supportive parents and teachers contributed to Amanda’s later mathematical success.
“What about the father who learned all this really hard math and sat with her and gave her the next problem, explained things?”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:18:24
Michael Phelps could not have achieved his success without Bob Bowman.
“You cannot be Michael Phelps without Bob Bowman, full stop.”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:19:24
Self-reliant achievement limits how far a person can progress.
“You can keep all the points, but you won't go as far.”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:23:46
Feeling burned out usually indicates excessive effort and requires changing circumstances.
“if you feel burned out, then you probably are trying really hard”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:24:48
Sustained consistency depends on an environment that supports consistent behavior.
“the path to consistency is a situation that sets up consistency”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:27:50
AI and screens are transforming human behavior more than recent technological changes.
“the seismic changes in technology, phones, social media, AI, Everyone's talking about it, but as a behavioral scientist, I can't say that I have seen anything that's changing the way we spend time, the way we do or don't socialize, the way we exercise, the way we do everything, religions, that's greater than the things that are happening right now with AI, with screens.”
Open the episode · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158Listen at 1:39:40
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