Grit
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Vocal Characteristics
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
great, the power of passion and perseverance written by Angela Duckworth's growing up, I heard the Virginia's alive. It was always my dad who brought it up, He'd like to say a proposal of nothing at all. You know, you're no genius. This pronouncement might come in the middle of dinner during a commercial break for the love boat or after he flopped down on the couch of the Wall Street Journal. I don't remember how I responded. Maybe I pretended not to hear. My dad was deeply concerned with how smart he was. He was deeply concerned with how smart his family was. I wasn't the only problem my dad didn't think about. My brother and sister were geniuses either by his yardstick. None of us measured up to Einstein, apparently this was a great disappointment. Dad worried that this intellectual handicap would limit what would eventually achieve in life.