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Why Grit Isn’t Enough to Get What You Want | Angela Duckworth

September 8, 2026
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Psychologist Angela Duckworth, former McKinsey Consulting analyst and Duckworth Lab founder, is author of Grit, which has sold over 5 million copies, and Situated: Find the People and Places that Bring Out Your Best. The episode references The Person and the Situation, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, the fundamental attribution error research of Dick Nisbett and Lee Ross, and Bob Rosenthal's Pygmalion effect study.