Grit

So Angela Duckworth is born in 1970 to Chinese immigrant parents in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Peter, neighbor?

Not really, but, uh, I know it, yes.

She gets a BA in neurobiology from Harvard.

She gets her master's from Oxford.

After she finishes graduate school, she kinda bounces around.

She's an intern in the White House speechwriting department.

She eventually lands at McKinsey as a management consultant.

[laughs] It's so, it's so funny to have a, a r- like a resume that's like you're at, like, the top schools in the world.

You're getting-

Mm-hmm

... fucking genius grants or whatever and, and running around, doing outstanding, uh...

And then you just, [laughs] you just, just slither your way into McKinsey at the end.

[laughs] I know.

She did literally get a genius grant in 2013.

This is like, [laughs] this is-

Oh, like the, like, um, the MacArthur Grant?

Yeah, the actual-

Like-

... official genius grant

... okay.

She a- she got one, yes.

I'm, like, foreseeing this episode in a weird way.

No, I know.

It's, it's Chekhov's, it's Chekhov's McKinsey consultant career.