Grit: The power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED Talk

In her TED Talk "Grit: the power of passion and perseverance," psychologist and teacher Angela Lee Duckworth shares what she learned from leaving a high-flying job in consulting to teach math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ was not the only difference between students with strong and weak test scores. In this inspiring talk on motivation, you’ll learn how watching students show resilience and a growth mindset led Duckworth to develop her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.

Learning objectives:

• Define "grit"
• Increase your resilience by recognizing its role in success
• Improve your mentoring and coaching skills by encouraging the traits for success in others