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Dweck came to see that some students aim at performance goals, while others strive toward learning goals.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Angela Duckworth • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The capacities to be proactive, prosocial, disciplined, and determined stayed with students longer—and ultimately proved more powerful—than early math and reading skills.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
Character is what allows you to reach the top and stay there.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
“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.”
Angela Duckworth • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The “Things I Like To Do” Hierarchy
When Duckworth explained her “goal hierarchy” to the economist Steven Levitt, he replied, “I don’t have goals exactly. I have things that I like to do.” At the top of his “things I like to do” hierarchy is that “I love to play with ideas. I love it when there’s a difficult problem and it seems like it can’t b
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Angela Duckworth • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
What does make a significant difference along the whole intelligence spectrum is something else: how much self-discipline or self-control one uses to approach the tasks at hand