Angela Duckworth in Conversation with Jonathan Haidt: Situated

Angela Duckworth changed the way we think about achievement with Grit, her landmark book on passion, perseverance, and success.

Now she returns with a provocative new question: what if individual determination is only part of the story? She joins # 1 bestselling social scientist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, for a conversation about creating a social context that sets you up for success.

In her new book, Situated: Find the People and Places that Bring Out Your Best, Duckworth turns her attention to the hidden power of circumstance — the people, places, habits, routines, and surroundings that shape what we are able to become. We are often told to make the best of our situation. Duckworth argues that the wiser move may be to make the situation better first. Drawing on stories from high performers, groundbreaking research, and her own life as a writer, teacher, psychologist, and parent, Duckworth explores how we can design conditions that help us — and others — thrive.

In a rich and revealing conversation about the research behind Situated, Duckworth and Haidt discuss how social environment affects the arc of our lives — and what Duckworth’s new work reveals about ambition, talent, motivation, success, and human potential. Join us for a fascinating evening with two of today’s most influential thinkers on achievement, character, and the science of human behavior.