At this year's Sunday Times Festival of Education, the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues sponsored the lecture given by Dr. Angela Duckworth titled 'True Grit: Who succeeds in life?'. Dr. Duckworth is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. Her research focusses on self-control (the ability to regulate emotions, thoughts, and feelings in the service of valued goals) and grit (perseverance and sustained interest in long-term goals) and in the lecture, Dr. Duckworth reviewed some of her previous work on grit.