Never give up...
Freidrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, once stated that there was a universal tendency to see success as the result of innate talent, rather than effort, economist.com reports.
Today, it is still common to think of a straight-A pupil as having a "gift" for learning, or the sports star as miraculously skillful, the news service wrote.
Angele Duckworth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that talent is overrated.
More important, she suggests, is a blend of persistence and passion -- or "grit."
"Our potential is one thing," she writes. "What we do with it is quite another."
For more about talent, effort and Duckworth's book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance: https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21699890-why-never-giving-up-worthwhile-goal-character-driven?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/characterdriven
Photos: Pinterest.
Simone Biles, an American gold-medal winner at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Freidrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, once stated that there was a universal tendency to see success as the result of innate talent, rather than effort, economist.com reports.
Today, it is still common to think of a straight-A pupil as having a "gift" for learning, or the sports star as miraculously skillful, the news service wrote.
Angele Duckworth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that talent is overrated.
More important, she suggests, is a blend of persistence and passion -- or "grit."
"Our potential is one thing," she writes. "What we do with it is quite another."
For more about talent, effort and Duckworth's book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance: https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21699890-why-never-giving-up-worthwhile-goal-character-driven?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/characterdriven
Simone Biles, a Gold Medal star of Team USA in Rio.
Photos: Pinterest.
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Team USA's Golden Snowboading Run.
Team USA's Golden Snowboading Run.
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