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#109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

CHAPTER

You Can Change Your Situation

Li: As an adult, you can choose who your exemplars are. Li: I've done these research studies on this self control technique called a situation modification. The condition that increased academic goal attainment best was the one where you just explained to kids like, hay, you can modify your situation. i think that idea thatk your situation isn't just like, fixed or set ah, but something you can agentically, intentionally modify is one of the most important lessons that you could learn.

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