Grit
4/30/20261 hr 19 min
In 2013, education reformers tried to help poor students the using the best tool at their disposal: The 16th most popular Ted Talk.
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Sources:
- Much Ado About Grit
- What Shall We Do About Grit?
- Grit under attack
- Teaching “Grit”
- The Problem With Grit
- The Limits of “Grit”
- Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
- Is 'Grit' Doomed To Be The New Self-Esteem?
- Measurement Matters
- Using Psychological Science to Help Children Thrive
- Self-Control and Academic Achievement
- Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success
- Should non-cognitive skills be included in school accountability systems?
- Measuring Students’ Non-Cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling
- Grit: A Short History of a Useful Concept
- Teaching Kids 'Grit' is All the Rage.
- "Grit" Revisited
- Character Education: A Cautionary Note
- What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?
- The Effects of the EITC on Child Achievement
- Academic Performance And Food Stamps
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsPeter Shamshiri· Host0:00
Um, all right, I have- [laughs] I'm not kidding when I say I know nothing about this book and have never heard of it once in my life.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:05
[laughs] That's good. You're going in fresh.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:06
It's called Grit. I'm gonna assume this, this is about the, the grit as, like, a, a personal characteristic, right?
Michael Hobbes· Host0:13
Yes.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:13
It's like, uh, like grit, the power of persevering or something. Um- Yeah, literally, Peter. [laughs] What? Is that?
Michael Hobbes· Host0:21
It's literally Grit, colon, The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:24
Dude, I'm so fucking good now. I, [laughs] I- [laughs] You've done this show for too long. [laughs] [laughs] Oh my God.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:32
Bro, so you're not gonna do the obvious zinger?
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:34
What's the obvious zinger?
Michael Hobbes· Host0:35
Isn't the title missing an F?
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:37
What?
Michael Hobbes· Host0:38
Grift.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:39
[laughs] Oh my, I'm so stupid. I was, I was like, "What the fuck's the grit?"
Michael Hobbes· Host0:43
[laughs] I think you'd be all over that. All right, let's just, let's just go.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:46
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:47
Peter.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:48
Michael.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:48
What do you know about Grit?
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:50
All I know is that that title is one F short of being accurate.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:56
[upbeat music] So the full title of this book is Grit, colon, The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, and we will not be talking about it for at least 45 minutes.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:20
Because first you're gonna, you're gonna talk about the history of grit.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:22
No.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:22
[laughs] The his- the history of grittiness.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:24
Well, we do actually have to talk about the history of the concept because this episode is really about the rise and fall of