THE KEY TO SUCCESS? GRIT

SUMMARY

Angela Lee Duckworth is a teacher of “tweens”. Bit by bit she sees that IQ doesn't have a lot of importance.  After this she thinks that there is a deficiency for understanding students from a psychological perspective. For this reason she leaves the classes and begins to study psychology. In her psychological classes Angela wonders which is the key for success and why this happened. In her experiments Lee comes to one conclusion: There is one characteristic that stands: the GRIT. Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals, it is having stamina, sticking with your future, it is living life like it's a marathon not a sprint. She considers that gradually people must grow mentality of. If they strive, they are better prepared fo failures because they know, failures aren't a permanent condition.

MY OPINION

In my opinion I agree with Angela Lee Duckworth because I think that IQ tests aren't correct. I think that the intelligence of people can't be measured with one test. People are clever in different ways and perhaps in that test some don't have a good mark. Grit is very important to achieve and confront problems better; This emotion is a sample of maturity, intelligence and wisdom.

I think that I have a lot of grit because, in my opinion, if you don't try it, you never know what can happen. Everybody must be positive and optimists and think that WE CAN!

LINK: http://www.ted.com/playlists/158/graduation_now_what



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