Quitting Is Good, Actually with researcher Julia Keller
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
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The Power of Grief
The idea of grit began to really take hold in the middle of the 19th century, when a man named Samuel Smiles wrote a book called self help with illustrations of character and conduct. To my mind that really initiated a quite insidious idea on our culture, the idea being if you are rich, you have worked harder than other people. If you are poor, you have quit, you've given up, you're weak, you're cowardly,. You're lazy, there's something wrong with you, you're a sniveling loser. And that's what I really want to push back against as part of the emotional heart of the book is to say, that isn't true it's
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