The Golden Rules

Stop Doing Things the Hard Way with Dr. Angela Duckworth

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos, 7 September 2026. The book comes up at 57 min 50 sec in.

Angela Duckworth describes reading swim coach Bob Bowman's book while researching mentorship, finding in it both elements she recognized from her own grit research and a clear statement that the key to greatness is finding the people and places that bring out your best—a principle that became the subtitle and animating idea of her new book, Situated.

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