# How Your Situation Shapes You (with Angela Duckworth)

- Source: EconTalk
- Published: 2026-10-26T10:30:00+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://www.econtalk.org/how-your-situation-shapes-you-with-angela-duckworth/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/how-your-situation-shapes-you-with-angela-duckworth-59b478/

Sure, you can use willpower or grit to break bad habits and build new ones. But maybe the key to success is simpler: change your situation. Psychologist Angela Duckworth explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts why the people and places around us shape our behavior more than we realize--and why we're hard-wired to resist that idea. Listen as they discuss the three-box framework for understanding human

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