Duckworth’s TED talk is just another instance of the “here is an important individual difference that is not IQ [therefore everyone should just forget about IQ already!]” genre, which as far as genres go, is pretty boring; no one has ever believed that conscientiousness/hardworkingness/grit/whatever is not an important individual difference, just that mental ability is an important individual difference too.
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Here is a very on topic article:
Duckworth’s TED talk is just another instance of the “here is an important individual difference that is not IQ [therefore everyone should just forget about IQ already!]” genre, which as far as genres go, is pretty boring; no one has ever believed that conscientiousness/hardworkingness/grit/whatever is not an important individual difference, just that mental ability is an important individual difference too.
You seem to have done something strange with that link. This is the corrected link.