Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth
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...
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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton BastWhen I was 27 years old,I left a very demanding job in management consultingfor a job that was even more demanding: teaching.I went to teach seventh graders mathin the New York City public schools.And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests.I gave out homework assignments.When the work came back, I calculated grades.What struck me was that IQ was not the only differencebetween my best and my worst students.Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores.Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well.And that got me thinking.The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math,sure, they're hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram.But these concepts are not impos...
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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton BastWhen I was 27 years old,I left a very demanding job in management consultingfor a job that was even more demanding: teaching.I went to teach seventh graders mathin the New York City public schools.And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests.I gave out homework assignments.When the work came back, I calculated grades.What struck me was that IQ was not the only differencebetween my best and my worst students.Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores.Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well.And that got me thinking.The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math,sure, they're hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram.But these concepts are not impos...
