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Laura Lootens
Diabolico
Town Hall presents
Angela Duckworth
Success Without Burnout
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Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best (Hardcover)
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Success is a word that will be defined differently depending on who you ask, but achieving “success” in one way or another is a common framework through which we define our worth. And while achieving success may appear like the basic product of hours worked plus passion and determination, we secretly rely on external factors like people, places, and environments to truly achieve our goals. Situations have more effect on us than we realize, and by curating our company, living spaces, and the situations we engage in everyday, success often starts to come quicker than we imagine.
This is the concept that bestselling author, Angela Duckworth, explores in her new book, Situated: Find the People and Places that Bring Out Your Best. In her previous work, Grit, Duckworth showed that a common denominator of successful individuals is the combination of passion and perseverance. In Situated, she builds on this idea, this time looking outwards at the environmental factors that support us in reaching our goals. Duckworth’s in-depth research reveals the enormous influence wielded by the objects within arm’s reach, including peers, mentors, and even your zip code.
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Duckworth helps us discover why our personality changes, sometimes dramatically, from one situation to another—and how you can harness that shift for your own benefit. We also see how the path of reduced effort is often the most effective and yet counter-intuitive way to reach our destination. Duckworth also shares personal experiences with burnout and trials in her own marriage, demonstrating how learning to change her situation, not herself, made all the difference. If instead of working against ourselves, we find ways to properly situate our life, we can turn our situation into our best ally.
Angela Duckworth, PhD, is a psychologist, a MacArthur Fellow, and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Duckworth’s TED talk is among the most viewed of all time. Her first book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance was a #1 New York Times bestseller and has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. Her second book is called Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best.
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