RENTON, Wash. -- When Angela Duckworth returned to Philadelphia back in May, friends and colleagues wanted to know who she had met during her visit to the Seattle Seahawks' practice facility.
Unfortunately, Duckworth wasn't quite sure how to answer.
"I didn’t even know who the quarterback was," she said.
A professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and MacArthur Fellow, Duckworth does know coach Pete Carroll. A few years ago, he reached out to learn more about an idea she is an expert on: grit.