
How to turn grit into a lifelong habit | Angela Duckworth
The TED Interview
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How Did You Become a Doctoral Student?
At the beginning of his career, at least as a psychologist, i was a neurobiology major. My first study with marty seligman just showed that young people who were better able to choose longer term rewards over immediate gratifications predicted their year and report card gradesBetter than icutess that we administered also the beginning of the year. So for me, it was the first step in this journey to, well, it can't all be about your measured ice because look, here's report card grades that depend also on this thing that is not very highly correlated with your i c. And i guess that is the core idea behind the famous, possibly over famous, marsh mellow test
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