Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158

“I mean, you know, I continued to do science. Other scientists getting people to keep thinking. And you know what? I don't disagree with a word in grit. I really don't. Other people can, but I don't. I feel like there is a final common path to becoming great that requires consistency over time.”

“I wrote about him in Grit. I also wrote about him in Situated, and he's the only person I put in both books. I wrote about him in Grit. Why? Because in that early email in 2013, he introduced himself as somebody whose life could only be explained through passion and perseverance.”

“out poems and I paste them on the wall and I write down quotes and I like usually on two by two post-it notes. Like, I was going to try to get them like needle-pointed or whatever. And anyway, I was just like, I'm just going to write it down on a post-it note.”

“And so I need to see the two by two post-it note. So, like some of the people I study, including Cody Coleman, Cody Coleman has post-it notes everywhere, literally, like, you know, the post-it note on his mirror. So, I become like the people I study, I'm decorating my personal space, not just when I'm taking out.”

“I know Malcolm Gladwell read it and it changed his life. The book is called The Person and the Situation. And it is not a bestseller. It is written by two academics who never went on podcasts, right? They are Dick Nisbitt and Lee Ross. And every graduate student in psychology has to learn what's in that book.”

“But it's very much, okay, so here's a study that is highlighted in The Person and the Situation that, again, like every graduate student in psychology learned, it's called the Good Samaritan Study, right? And it actually literally takes place at a seminary. So these are, people who are going to go into the ministry, right?”

“design. I was a little worried when I first thought about that because I'm like, as a with a productivity background and like spending a lot of time with David Allen's getting things done and environment design, like you know, you don't want to be distracted by your phone, don't have it next to you on the table. I'm like, Don't, it can't be, it can't, it can't be.”

“They don't want the situation to be a crutch. I think it needs a kind of a mark of character. Like, you don't want to be the kind of person who needs to take GLP1s or to like, you know, you want to be the sort of person who doesn't need that, right? So I think that to me is at least part of the answer. But you asked the question, like, what's not obvious?”

“apart from the fact that it's, yeah, exactly. It's like 1230. And sure. I did a, a saliva cortisol test where you spit in a tube like every, you, maybe you did one of these two every two hours or every hour you do this throughout the day or in the night as well. And I didn't need to, I knew I've inverted.”