경영 컨설팅으로 크게 성공한 안젤라 리 덕월쓰(Angela Lee Duckworth)는, 컨설팅 일을 그만두고 뉴욕시에서 중학생들에게 수학을 가르치기 시작했다. 아이들을 가르치면서, 공부를 잘하는 아이들과 못하는 아이들을 구별짓는 것은 아이큐가 아니라는 것을 깨달았다. 성공의 열쇠는 바로 "기개"라는 것, 여기 그녀의 설명을 들어보자.
Speakers Angela Lee Duckworth: Psychologist
Why you should listen to her:
After five years of teaching seventh graders, she went back to grad school to complete her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now an assistant professor in the psychology department. Her research subjects include students, West Point cadets, and corporate salespeople, all of whom she studies to determine how "grit" is a better indicator of success than factors such as IQ or family income.
"Angela Lee Duckworth's research validated and furthered my beliefs in the keys to success for individuals, teams and a business. While intelligence is required, Angela demonstrated that the determining factors for success were perseverance, hard work and a drive to improve."Shabbir Dahod, Forbes Email to a friend »
Quotes by Angela Lee Duckworth
“Grit is sticking with your future — day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years — and working really hard to make that future a reality.”
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“Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.”
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“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.”
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“We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.”
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