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Grit the power of passion and perseverance by angela lee duckworth

Grit The power of passion and perseverance by Angela Lee Duckworth When I was years old I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding teaching I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools And like any teacher I made quizzes and tests I gave out homework assignments When the work came back I calculated grades What struck me was that IQ was not the only di ?erence between my best and my worst students Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well And that got me thinking The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math sure they're hard ratios decimals the area of a parallelogram But these concepts are not impossible and I was ?rmly convinced that every one of my students could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough After several more years of teaching I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective from a psychological perspective In education the one thing we know how to measure best is IQ But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily So I left the classroom and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings and in every study my question was who is successful here and why My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year and of those who will be the most e ?ective at improving learning outcomes for their students We partnered with private companies asking which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs And who's going to earn the most money In all those very di ?erent contexts one characteristic emerged as a signi ?cant predictor of success And it wasn't social intelligence It wasn't good looks physical health and it wasn't IQ It was grit Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals Grit is having stamina Grit is sticking with your future day in day out not just for the week not just for the month but for years and working really hard to make that future a reality Grit is living life like it's a marathon not a sprint A few years ago I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools I asked thousands of high school juniors to