The Importance of Grit Persistence in Education

The academic cycle is short with immediate feedback and it's easy, for example, to move on from one subject to another after three or six months of study if things don't go well. One way in which our system doesn't do a great job of encouraging grit is there's a kind of a narrowing of the focus on what it means to be successful. Most of us in life are going to become, if we're lucky, good at something. And it's that one thing that actually matters and not the other things you didn't invest in.