Angela Duckworth VIP Ticket

Each VIP ticket ($30 + fees) includes:

• A copy of Situated
• VIP seating at the event
• Signing line priority
• A donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation

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For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email [email protected].

Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.

All ticket purchases are non-refundable. If you have purchased a ticket and can no longer attend, email [email protected] by the event date to arrange book pickup at the CCPL branch of your choice.

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About the author:

Angela Duckworth is a Philadelphia local, a psychologist, a MacArthur Fellow, and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book GRIT (published already a decade ago!), has sold over 5 million copies worldwide, and her TED Talk on GRIT is one of the most viewed of all time.

SITUATED focuses on the hidden power of situations – and how you can shape them to make doing hard things easier. In GRIT, she showed that a common denominator of successful strivers is a blend of passion and perseverance. This book is part two of that: about the situations where grit, though necessary, isn’t enough. How you position yourself to meet a challenge is crucial.

Duckworth’s research reveals the enormous influence wielded by everything from the objects within arm’s reach, to your peers and mentors, and even your zip code. Though you’re often told to make the best out of your situation, it is far, far better to make your situation better first.

She highlights four essential elements of successful situations – peers, mentors, space, culture – and shows how high performers like Taylor Swift, Michael Phelps, and Jerry Seinfeld create situations that make the most of their grit. And with disarming honesty, she shares her own struggles with burnout and marriage—and how learning to change her situation, not herself, made all the difference.