Angela Duckworth on SummaryShelfhttps://summaryshelf.app/authors/angela-duckworth/Recent content in Angela Duckworth on SummaryShelfHugoen-usWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverancehttps://summaryshelf.app/grit/Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/grit/<p>Effort counts twice. Angela Duckworth arrived at that formula after a puzzle from her own classroom: her strongest students weren&rsquo;t the ones with the highest IQs, and some of the highest-IQ students were doing badly. Talent, she realized, only sets how fast you can build a skill. Effort shows up in the equation twice—once turning talent into skill, and again turning skill into results. Talent times effort makes skill; skill times effort makes achievement. A gifted athlete who won&rsquo;t practice loses to the steady one who trains every day. The novelist John Irving had dyslexia and poor grades and simply outworked everyone; even Mozart put in eight hours a day as a child.</p>