Who Is Angela Duckworth's Grit: The Power Of Passion And Perseverance

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Angela Duckworth the MacArthur “ genius” prize winner developed studies and worked hard for a long period of time to prove everyone specially her father that achievement is not defined within one’s possession of talent, but the ability of having passion and long term perseverance. In effect, Angela published Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance on May 3, 2016 to describe how to develop grit, and how we can help support grit in others. Angela Duckworth’s book was an outstanding debut leading to a major success. The book written by Angela Duckworth, managed to put a different significance to the term of grit bringing a different perspective of it. The take of how the story was told focused

In addition, after several years of teaching seventh grade students, she came to a conclusion that helped her have a better understanding of students and learning from a perspective that could be motivational to them. Angela mentioned “In education the one thing that we know how to measure best, is IQ” ( Duckworth 24) to express how important doing well in school as well as life is more dependable on the ability of learning quickly, and easily. That was a door opening for Angela to go in depth with her “curiosity “ (Duckworth 15) as she referred to

She asked thousands of highschool juniors to take a grit questionnaier as she waited around to see who graduted. To her conlsuion and studies, it turned out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to gradute. Although she tried to match them on every characteristic she could think of, wheter it be things like family income, standardized test scores, achievement test scores,and even how safe kids felt when they were at school. Immediately Angela realized that it is not just at West Point or the National spelling bee it is also at school, specially where kids are in risk of dropping out. Something shocking to her was “ how little we know, how little science knows about building grit” (Duckworth 98). Everyday she got calls and messages from parents and teachers worried about how can grit be build in others or encourage in others. But in reality she did not know. However, she knew that talent does not make a person gritty, but the data studied showed that there are many talented individuals who do not follow through on their