Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Scientific American:

Angela Duckworth’s long-awaited book Grit has finally arrived! It’s getting great reviews (e.g., NY Times), and it has set off hugely important debates in education and in scientific circles.

Make no doubt: Grit is great. It’s a lucid, informative, and entertaining review of the research Angela has assiduously conducted over the past decade or so. The book also includes suggestions on how to develop grit, and how we can help support grit in others. There are few people who wouldn’t learn something from this book.

Angela herself is one of the grittiest individuals I’ve ever met. Her office is literally two doors down from mine, and there is so much intense energy coming out of that wing of the Positive Psychology Center that sometimes I need to close the door to my office just so I can breathe a little! Angela is constantly (and I mean constantly) thinking of better ways of measuring and developing grit and character in children. I consider Angela a valued friend and colleague, and I think she’s a tremendous scientist and person.

Read the whole story: Scientific American