Description
Angela Duckworth spent years studying why some people achieve far more than their talent alone would predict, and her answer is a quality she calls grit — less a personality trait than a habit of identifying what you care about and staying with it past the point where most people quit. A MacArthur Fellow and psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth builds the book on her own research rather than borrowed anecdotes, aimed at parents, teachers, and anyone trying to figure out why effort keeps losing to talent in the popular imagination when the data says otherwise.
