Angela Lee Duckworth is an American academic, psychologist, and popular science author. She is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Duckworth ## Notes - [[Grit - The power of passion and perseverance]] - [[Why effort matters more than talent]] ## Quotes - [[Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals]] - [[It is the nature of human nature that we lose the skills we have acquired when we're not practicing.]] - [[It's effort applied to skill that creates human achievement]] - [[Talent counts, but effort counts twice.]]