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How to turn grit into a lifelong habit | Angela Duckworth

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Is the Marshmallow Test Predicting Your Life?

There's been some debate, some controversy over how predictive the task really is of your long term life outcomes. The original claim was that predicted everything about your life,. But when scientists say it predicts your life outcomes, i think what most people here is, it's not at all like that. It's a probablistic, weak relationship, meaning that yet better than chance, i can, but not much better than chance.

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