What if you can become your best self by changing the situation around you?

In our season 4 finale of How We Future, Lisa Kay Solomon talks with psychologist, University of Pennsylvania professor, and author Angela Duckworth about her new book, Situated, and the powerful role our environments, relationships, and circumstances play in shaping what we think, feel, and do.

Angela’s previous book, Grit, explores how to leverage our inner qualities. Now, she’s examining the “outside game”: the mentors, peers, teams, spaces, and systems that can help us thrive.

Listen to the full episode to learn strategies for changing your environment, building supportive relationships, making behavior change easier, and using your agency to create better conditions for yourself and others.

Lisa and Angela talk about:

• Angela’s three-box model for changing behavior
• Why changing your environment can be smarter than relying on willpower
• What Michael Phelps and Jerry Seinfeld teach us about situational agency

And as always, we’d love to hear from you: What’s one part of your situation you could change to make the future you want a little easier to reach?

Links from the episode:

• Learn more about Angela on her website
• Buy Angela’s new book, Situated
• Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankel

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