Sublime

pessoas com o mindset de crescimento não se rotularam nem se desesperaram.

It’s about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

Grit is a popular buzzword in parenting and education. It means sticking with something no matter how hard it is or how much adversity you must face to achieve it. That’s my definition. In her best-selling 2014 book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, the psychologist and researcher Angela Duckworth studied West Point cadets, inner-city

By testing our limits and affording the freedom to fail, they release our most creative, ambitious selves.

In each case, a brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else.

You can see how the belief that cherished qualities can be developed creates a passion for learning. Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

In recent years, psychologists studying differences in educational achievement have been paying more attention to the question of ‘non-cognitive traits’, by which they mean something like personality, or character. It’s now recognised that the attitude students take towards the learning process, and the habits they practise, have a bigger impact on

“high but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence.”