If you're starting a new school year, or any new activity, you're probably going to be facing some new challenges. How can you successfully attain new skills or improve in school, in sports, or in extracurriculars? Angela Duckworth has some ideas about what's going to help you succeed:
"We need to take our best idea, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned."
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.
