Summary Of How To Get More Grit In Your Life By Angela Duckworth

The article Self Regulated Learner by Weimer and the other article How To Get More Grit in your life by Angela Duckworth strengthen the same theory that no matter, what skills we are born with, we can change our mental abilities and through the process of self regulation, we can transform them into academic skills. As Barry Zimmerman, a researcher on self regulated learning states, “Self-regulation is not a mental ability or an academic performance skill; rather it is the self-directive process by which learners transform their mental abilities into academic skills.” (p. 65) He identifies three main factors which are involved in self regulatory process as self awareness, self motivation and behavioral skills to implement that knowledge.. Similarly, Duckworth redefines genius as something one accomplishes by oneself rather than what is one gifted with. In her own words, “I want to define genius as greatness that isn’t necessarily effortless, but, in fact, greatness that is earned however you do earn it.” She further adds that by

So through the biography of Parez we see how the above mentioned theory proves true. The psychologist Angela Duckworth also argues that “a person’s level of stick to itiveness is directly related to the level of success”.. In addition, Duckworth identifies four main characteristics interest, practice, purpose and hope to achieve success. In the hand book memoir by Rosie Perez, we see the application of all these four traits and how the actress Rosie struggled on the difficult road of life towards adulthood and lastly she made it out. She was well known for her quick talking characters but she has to struggle with the language deficiency to become a Film artist. As she expressed in an interview to T magazine "I had such a bad speech impediment as a result of the emotional trauma I was going through in my