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Who succeeds in life? In this talk, Angela Duckworth presents her influential work on grit-the tendency to pursue long-term goals with perseverance and passion. She describes the predictive power of grit for performance in a variety of fascinating contexts.
Grit, resilience, and growth mindset are intertwined. Some believe these traits are innate, but others . . . believe they can be developed.
[Angela Duckworth] believes grit is a better predictor for long-term success than our traditional understanding of genius as traits or talents that we are born with.
Someone floated an idea: Wouldn’t it make sense for Duckworth to visit the schools that had applied her grit curriculum? This sounds like a great publicity tie-in, until, that is, you consider the fact that there is no grit curriculum—at least, not one Duckworth has ever written.
General Session: Angela Duckworth, author of “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” spoke at the 2016 National Summit on Education Reform on Thursday, Dec. 1 in Washington, D.C.
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We all know—on some level, at least—that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can.
Attributes like self-control predict children’s success in school and beyond. Over the past few years, I’ve seen a groundswell of popular interest in character development.
Back by popular demand, recent Daily Homeroom guest Angela Duckworth is returning to answer more of your questions. She’s Founder CEO of Character Lab and author of the New York Times bestselling book, "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
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.
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