The idea of openness to new experiences, pushing past fear of failure, becoming resilient are all great concepts. The problem with a lot of what Dweck and Duckworth have done, IMO, is to oversimplify the idea. Academics often get notoriety for overly simplified ideas (e.g., learned helplessness). That's what the public and media like. But the real world is much more complex.
She acknowledges some problems in this new article, but there is still nothing about giftedness. One of the problems stemming from the early work was the assumption that if you tell a child he or she is gifted, he/she will be at a disadvantage because he/she will give up trying. Again, this is overly simplistic. Most gifted kids already know they are smart, different, outliers, etc. And many gifted kids don't challenge themselves due to fear of failure because they have never been challenged in schools - not because they know they are smart.
I wrote a blog post a while back:
http://giftedchallenges.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-grit-talent-dichotomy-creating_19.htmlI appreciate Dweck's acknowledgement of the problems with some of the work and how it has been misconstrued by the media, schools, etc. I just think more could be done.
