Author

Books by Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth is a psychologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies self-control, grit, and achievement. She founded the Character Lab, a nonprofit that advances research on character development in children. Before her academic career she worked as a management consultant and middle school math teacher -- experiences that shaped her central question: why do some people succeed despite modest talent while others with high ability stall? Her 2013 TED Talk on grit has been viewed over 25 million times. Grit, published in 2016, is her first book.