Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion The achievement of success, blooming late etc

I love it!

Maybe we should cross post this to the success thread:

"According to University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth, passion is a component, along with perseverance, of what she calls grit. It particularly enables people to reach for goals that may be a long time in coming, she discovered in interviews with achievers in fields from investment banking to painting. Her studies show that grit and self-discipline predict educational attainment just as well as, if not better than, IQ."


This was interesting:
"There even appears to be an optimal amount of formal schooling after which schooling can deter creative achievement. Beyond that lies the danger of getting too entrenched in the traditional thinking."

I have a bunch of blurbs I liked, but I won't paste it all lol.