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Why Angela Duckworth Thinks “Gritty” Leaders Are People to Emulate

By Jena McGregor — 2016

In recent years, Duckworth’s concept, which says that a combination of perseverance and passion helps predict a person’s success, has become both a popular and controversial idea in the education world. Some schools have even rushed to adopt ways of measuring it and testing for it—an idea to which Duckworth, a former teacher herself, is opposed.

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True Grit

It may be obvious that effort and stamina are required to accomplish anything worthwhile in life. But how easy is it to forget this fact in moments when we feel tortoise-like relative to our seemingly hare-like peers?

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