We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we’ve been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
Angela Lee Duckworth Quotes
There are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.
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| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Professor, Psychologist |
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Angela Lee Duckworth is an American psychologist. She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Neurobiology, and from University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D. in Psychology.
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