Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our
fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only
a small part of our possible mental resources. . .men the world over
possess amounts of resource, which only exceptional individuals push
to their extremes of use.
William James
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee
Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public
school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the
successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of
"grit" as a predictor of success.
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