When I was 27, years old I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching.? I went to teach seventh graders math in 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.
0:35What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between 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 impossible and I, was firmly convinced that every one of my students could learn the material. If they worked hard and long enough.
1: 15After several more years, of teaching I came to the conclusion that what we need. In education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a, motivational perspective from a psychological. Perspective, In education.The one thing we know how to measure best is IQ. But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than. Your ability to learn quickly and easily?
1: 47So I left the classroom and I, went to graduate school to become a, psychologist. I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super, challenging settings and in every study my question was who is,, Successful here and why?My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training. And which would drop out. We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest. In competition. We studied rookie teachers working in really, tough neighborhoodsAsking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the, school year and of those who will, be the. Most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students? We partnered with private companies asking which of,,, These salespeople is going to keep their jobs? And who 's going to earn the most money? In all those very, different contextsOne characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn 't social intelligence. It wasn' t, good looks. Physical health and it, wasn 't IQ. It was grit.
3: 00Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having. Stamina. Grit is sticking with your future day, out, in day, just not for, the week not just for the month but for years,,And working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it 's, a marathon not a sprint.
3: 27A few. Years ago I started, studying grit in the Chicago public schools. I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit. Questionnaires and then, waited around more than a year to see who would graduate.Turns out that grittier kids were significantly. More likely, to graduateEven when I matched them on every characteristic I, could measure things like family income standardized achievement, test. Scores even how, Safe Kids felt when they were at school. So it 's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Beethat. Grit matters. It 's also in school especially for, kids at risk for dropping out.
4: 08To me the most, shocking thing about. Grit is how little, we knowHow little science knows about building, it. Every day parents and, teachers ask me, "How do I build grit in kids? What. Do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run? "The honest, answer is I don t. ' Know.
4: 31What I do know is that talent doesn 't make you gritty.Our data show very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their, commitments. In fact in our, data grit is, usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.
4: 51So far the best, idea. I 've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset." This is an idea developed at Stanford University. By, Carol DweckAnd it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed that it, can change with your effort. Dr. Dweck has shown that. When kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response, to challenge they 're much more likely. To persevere when, they fail because they don 't believe that failure is a permanent condition.
5: 28So growth mindset is. A great idea for building grit.But we need more. And that 's where I' m going to end, my remarks because that 's where we are. That' s the work that stands. Before us. We need to take our best ideas our intuitions, strongest, we and need to test them. We need to measure whether. We 've been successful and we, have to be willing to fail to wrong to, be, start over again with lessons learned.
5: 55In. Other, wordsWe need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.
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