Leads To Success In Carol Dweck's Article You Can Grow Your Intelligence

Learning and success

Many people ask what leads to success? Is it good IQ scores that lead to intelligence and success or is it some brain surgery that makes people intelligent and successful? Some people think that it is IQ scores lead to success, others think that people stay the same way forever so they can not grow their intelligence and they can not be successful. Turns out, it is none of them, what leads to intelligence and success is practice, effort and failure.

A crucial thing that leads to success is practice. In Carol Dweck’s, Article You Can Grow Your Intelligence, She suggest that “new research show that the brain is more like a muscle-it changes and gets stronger when you use it.” What she really means is that the brain is like a muscle the more you practice the better you get. She also states in her article, “ No one thinks that babies are stupid because they can’t talk. They just haven’t learned how to yet.” In other words, she is saying that no one is smart or dumb it is just about how much they practice. Based on Carol Dweck’s article, “Just like a weightlifter or a basketball player, to be a brain athlete you have to exercise and practice.” She means that practice is crucial in order to get smarter and better.

Angela Duckworth states, “Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future. Day in and day out, not for a week, not for a month, but for years and working really hard to make that future a reality.” In other words, she means that grit is not quitting and giving up on your future, Grit is perseverance for a long term goal. In his article, What if the Secret to Success is Failure, Paul Tough claims, “If you worked hard and you showed real grit then you could be successful.” He really means that effort leads to success. Effort is needed to become successful because you can’t be successful without trying as hard as you