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Dan's just finished a workout and he's fired up about something that's been on his mind since early in his career: grit as a competitive strategy. Not grit as a buzzword, but grit as a deliberate choice to do the work nobody else wants to do, more consistently than anyone else is willing to do it.

Dan draws on Angela Duckworth's research, advice from a former head of Google Asia, and his own daily habits to make the case that skills follow effort, and careers follow both.

Chapters:

00:00 | Intro: why grit beats initial performance every time

00:41 | Angela Duckworth, the science of grit, and what doing that extra mile actually compounds into

01:08 | The career advice Dan got early on: find what everyone hates and do more of it than anyone else

01:54 | Why companies naturally promote the people willing to do the work nobody else wants

02:45 | Specific examples of the unglamorous work that will accelerate your career faster than talent

03:09 | The global team move: who to call on your way to work and why it matters more than you think

04:15 | Why most people waste the first two hours of their day and what to do instead

04:35 | How Dan spends the first hour of every week and the last minutes before logging off

Skills will come. Grit gets you there first.

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