Transcription of Developing Grit In Our Students
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14 Fall, 2014 Journal for Leadership and InstructionIntroductionWhy do most individuals make use of only a smallpercentage of their resources, whereas a few exceptionalindividuals push themselves to their limits? Why do someindividuals accomplish more than others of equal intelli-gence? One personal quality that is shared by most highachieving and successful people is grit. Grit may be thequality that sets these highly successful individuals apartfrom everyone else (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews &Kelly, 2007).There has been a lot of talk recently about gritand how to develop it within our Students . Grit is the qual-ity that enables individuals to work hard and stick to theirlong-term passions and goals. It makes sense that thiswould be important for Students , both in school and in one learn to have grit?
"Being gifted is no guarantee of being hardworking or passionate about something. The people who are am-bitious and have no limit to how much they want to un-derstand, learn or succeed are both talented and gritty" (Perkins-Gough, 2013). According to Galton (1892) who collected biographical information about highly suc-
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