A very short TED talk by Angela Lee Duckworth who has been studying “who is successful and why.”
“One characteristic emerge as a signigficant predictor of succes – it wasn’t social intelligence, it wasn’t good looks or physical health and it wasn’t IQ.”
Although her points seems a bit vague, I think that she is on to something.
Grit has become the popular topic in education. Several best selling books on it, like “how children succeed” and “the triple package.” She refers to Carol Dweck’s growth mindset theory, which we will soon get to. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe we should have tried the Marshmallow Test at the beginning of the semester and we could have checked to see if it accurately predicted our performance in class.