[The Knowledge Project Ep. #109] Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior

Shane Parrish: I’m curious about human behavior. Can we explore a bit to what extent behavior is predictable versus to what extent it’s situational?

Angela Duckworth: The “person versus situation” debate is the question that you’re asking about. And you could say that this has been the central question in all of psychology for as long as we’ve had psychology, right? And then if you want to predate it even more, you could say philosophy. You could argue that there are other questions as well, but this is central.