Did Angela Duckworth Lose Her Grit? | Dealing With Feelings And Perspective Taking

Learn from Angela Duckworth, the world’s expert in grit, as she bares her soul on Marc Brackett's new webcast, "Dealing With Feelings”.
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[@gimmerain4days]

Lovely interview. Thank you so much.

[@maggieshannon7757]

As an educator myself who is involved in promoting inclusive practice I really appreciate Angela's expansion of the idea of Grit and the factors which affect it. Oftentimes I have found that young people nowadays are being spoken about in a derogatory way and unfortunately a lack of "Grit" is being used as a means to describe deficiencies in these young people. I think it is important here to recognise all the good work done in the area of positive psychology and emotional intelligence while at the same time realising that the cohort of people those studies were carried out on were of a different era and the continuation of efforts in positive psychology to uncover current challenges is of vital importance to us all. I really enjoyed the talk, I found it accessible and uplifting.

[@MarcBrackett]

Thank you, for tuning in and for approaching "grit" with such a nuanced understanding. Angela's work indeed broadens our perspective, emphasizing that grit is not merely about tenacity, but also involves a complex interplay of factors, including the environment and support systems that surround our youth. What you're describing is an implementation challenge that I recently highlighted in my article on Psychology Today called 'The Truth About Emotional Intelligence' -->www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202403/the-truth-about-emotional-intelligence

[@renuguhadevi7877]

Was reading your book - permission to feel today and suddenly saw the name duckworth in ur book and came here to see the video :) Thanks ❤

[@MarcBrackett]

Thank you for watching 🧠

[@krishillteaches]

Such a great conversation. I'm an instructional coach at a high school in the Seattle suburbs. I wish my colleagues could read both of your books and watch this conversation. I want to facilitate dialogue both around grit and emotional intelligence with my colleagues to help them with one of my big professional goals: student engagement. I also have my own personal work that I'm about a year into with a therapist in terms of feeling my feelings that definitely shows up in how I interact with colleagues who tend toward a crime and punishment approach rather than one of time and support. So lots here for me to consider. Many of our students (and, I reckon, my colleagues) did/do not have emotional mentors and it shows up in a big way. We need meaningful training and sustained support for work on emotional intelligence. Want to come to the Kent School District, Marc?

[@barbobrien6739]

I found this interesting. (I'm in the field, so maybe that helped.) I found the discussion regarding grit and perseverance intriguing. I loved Marc's question regarding the movie title! I'm going to borrow that to use at some gatherings I attend!

[@MarcBrackett]

I'm glad you enjoyed the movie title question! It's one of those fun, yet revealing, prompts that can spark some truly memorable conversations. I hope it brings about some lively and thoughtful discussions.

[@user-xh9ci5wl6o]

Wonderful episode Marc and Angela! I appreciate the additional tips and strategies. I will be sharing with friends and family.

[@MarcBrackett]

Thank you for tuning in! You should also check out the strategy of the week that Angela shared with us about perspective taking. -->kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWqwqKOenMx9nJI

[@leoniewalters8070]

Very substantial and informative.

[@MarcBrackett]

Thank you for tuning in 🙏

[@Regulus1999]

Thanks for a very interesting conversation and as always your questions and information shared are so interesting. I guess I too fall in the ratio of people who never had an Uncle Marvin to tell how I felt! Or even anyone to ever ask me how I felt about all that was happening in my life or our family dynamics. But being a stiff upper 'lippian' from the UK, growing up in the early 60's, who was an Uncle Marvin for most of us back then? We just had to put up, shut up and get on with it as children and teenagers and then left home and made our own way into adulthood. I am not saying that is right, but is too much being focused now on how people 'feel' about 'everything'? I have not read Angela's book about Grit but have heard it recommended a lot and for some reason felt I should have read it. But having listened to her speak I'm not so sure it would have benefitted me. Because I feel that the perspective of what actually constitutes having 'True Grit' (excuse the pun) must be so subjective and personal to ones' experiences, culture and what you require the Grit for, do you not think? Maybe that's what her book explains. I agree that young people should ideally have someone they can confide in and express feelings freely when there is an issue and that could solve many longer term issues forming in adulthood but sometimes now I think there is overplay on that aspect and having been a teacher it is often being used as a weapon for us to not be able to say anything to the students for fear of 'hurting their feelings', even when you just want them to do the work. Dr Iain McGilchrist talks well about this happening widely in Universities in the UK. Then students take this in to the workplace with them and employers are expected to be trained in handling this too or fall fowl of the employment laws. It seems as an outsider to the US that therapy is so, so widespread and the norm now for every person who can afford it, if indeed they really need it or not. This must be a huge industry in the States really only centred on making money. I live in Spain now and whilst it is still quite behind the UK in many aspects; I find that their traditional family centred ways of old, allows for the young people here to fully express how they feel openly and lovingly with all members of the family and as is so often the case several generations of grandparents are often under the same roof and life is very much simpler and traditional loving values, no matter your age, are followed and respected. Therapists businesses are quite rare here. I also believe that young people should be taught such things as astrology too and understand that so much more than our everyday, material or psychological 3D life and people is what is affecting our feelings and realise the mass amount of different energies that we are being bombarded with each minute from our planets and cosmos affects so much. There is so much more to this than just having, or even losing grit. Sorry for my long rant but I do think sometime the US is a tiny bit insular in it's thinking around such matters.

[@MarcBrackett]

Let's hope for a new wave of Uncle Marvins! :)

[@MsTranthihai71]

Thanks

[@MarcBrackett]

Thank you for tuning in 🙏

[@hojaelee1562]

I have a question to Dr. Duckworth - around 16:00, she mentions "sampling" at a young age, and it reminded me of Exploration vs. Exploitation in Reinforcement Learning. However, how would you define what is "young" age? At which point should we try to specialize? I presume there is no cutoff age, but how would one know when to specialize?

[@MarcBrackett]

I think it can come over time. But not before high school, for sure. Though some people do have a calling..

[@karen_ellen]

Over my head.

[@eriksyring]

Mark should (from 23) have made Angela be much more personal, including asking what the “there was a lot of work to do” (and “I’ve had a lot of therapists”) was that she discovered with her therapist.

[@lisahadfieldlaw]

I disagree here….i thought both shared enough for me to be able to think about and apply some superbly useful strategies eg how are you feeling in one word? What would be the name of the film? How do you get perspective? Lots more and I have made notes. Thanks. That was the most valuable 40 mins for self development I’ve spent in a long time

[@eriksyring]

@@lisahadfieldlaw “In one word” is part of what the Mood Meter is about!)

[@lisahadfieldlaw]

Apologies, Im not sure what you mean@@eriksyring

[@eriksyring]

@@lisahadfieldlawThat guy from 2,500 years ago still lives inside so many East Asian homes.