How to Cultivate Your Character Strengths | Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth (0:00)

I think my whole life's work really might be adding up to increase psychological literacy. And I know it doesn't solve all the world's problems, but imagine a place where our political leaders, our industry leaders, our classroom teachers, our neighborhood cops, we're really just psychologically wise. They understood emotion. They understood when people are insecure, what happens to us when we do things out of fear.

How do we build these things? Like, I don't know, it's a pretty great world.

Michael Gervais (0:29)

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Now, this week's conversation is with Dr. Angela Duckworth, the founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. She is also the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative and faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics.