More Work Reading and Learning w/ Grit

• Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit | Video on TED.com

  'We need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.' Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit http://t.co/cAjyyeYa9S #sbgchat

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• The New Way to Identify Talent: The G Factor « The Talent Code

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  • One is early ownership. As Marjie Elferink-Gemser’s work shows, one pattern of successful athletes happens when they’re 13 or so, when they develop a sense of ownership of their training. For the ones who succeed, this age is when they decide that it’s not enough to simply be an obedient cog in the development machine — they begin to go farther, reaching beyond the program, deciding for themselves what their workouts will be, augmenting and customizing and addressing their weaknesses on their own.
  • Another tell is grit. This quality, investigated by the pioneering work of Angela Duckworth, refers to that signature combination of stubbornness, resourcefulness, creativity and adaptability that helps someone make the tough climb toward a longterm goal. Duckworth has come up with a simple questionnaire that measures the responder’s grit. It has only 17 questions, and the respondent self-assesses their ability to stick with a project, see a goal to the end, etc. (You can take it online here.)

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