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Jun 2021
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Raising Resilient Kids with Angela Duckw...

SIMON SINEK
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With unprecedented levels of stress and depression amongst young people, I wanted to know what we, as an older generation can do to help. So I talked to psychologist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania author of Grit, Angela Duckworth. 
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