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About Angela Duckworth
American psychologist and author
Angela Lee Duckworth is an American psychologist, academic, and popular science author. She is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on grit and self-control, subjects she has studied and written about for a wide audience. She also founded Character Lab, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development.
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- “At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, gri…”Angela Duckworth
- “Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and…”Angela Duckworth
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Books by Angela Duckworth
Grit
2016