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Angela Duckworth: Situation modification improves goal attainment more than willpower
“What we found is that the condition that increased academic Goal attainment best was the one where you just explained to kids like, hey, you can modify your situation.”
Duckworth: Mischel found cross-situational behavioral correlations top out around 0.3
“The correlation that he observed across situations had like a maximum of about .3. And sometimes people call this like the .3 ceiling, right? So if I observe somebody at home versus at work, you know, the correlation in a data set of lots of people who are obs…”
Duckworth: Teaching situation modification outperforms willpower for student goal attainment
“So in that study, there was a control group that learned about willpower and how important it is to, like, you know, use willpower to accomplish your goals, and then there was a neutral control group, and what we found is that the condition that increased acad…”
Duckworth: 10,000-hour rule stems from a single study of German musicians
“That number comes from a single study of German musicians at a music academy where the highest performing musicians had done on average about 10,000 hours of practice. The next most expert group was 5000, and the group below that, I believe, was like 2500.”
Duckworth: Fitbit study found no benefit to strict always-or-never goals
“So I will say this too, in the small amount of research I've done, cause we randomly assigned people to, for example, set a rule about how many steps they were going to take. And you know, these are Fitbit users that we Had recruited because they already had a…”
Duckworth: Elite performers continuously use coaches and therapists throughout their lives
“Most of the people that I study, like they never get out of being mentored, you know, like they have a management coach, they have like a personal coach, they have a therapist.”
Duckworth: Unpredictable trauma induces learned helplessness and depression
“The key is that if they experience these traumas in an unpredictable way, with, like, you know, you don't know when it's gonna end, you don't know the next thing's gonna happen, that's when you actually get, you know, the symptoms of depression and giving up.”