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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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