I enjoyed this article on how grit leads more to success than talent or intelligence.
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I enjoyed this article on how grit leads more to success than talent or intelligence.
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I stopped reading that after the first page. Who, while trying to make an egalitarian case for elbow grease over intellect, would use Isaac Newton as an example of that? What an awful example. Is the author aware of the groundbreaking work Newton did in his early 20’s? Of Newton’s anno mirabilis”?
What personal motivations (unconscious or not) might the author have for advocating an egalitarian view on intelligence? Might they be similar to what motivates this Atlantic correspondent who writes similar egalitarian happy talk about how we can all be geniuses if we work hard enough?
Again, I implore you, Aaron: be more cynical.
Be more cynical? No, cynicism has escalated. Be less cynical.
Very interesting… Read Outliers and The Talent Code, they talk about the same thing…
Fine, Alfred. Be less cynical but be more skeptical and more realistic. A person of average intelligence can put all the grit he wants into studying physics and it won’t make him a Newton or an Einstein. It won’t even make him an anonymous physics professor. Grit is a necessary, but insufficient requirement for success in most fields.
I, and many others, have recently notice that perceived “talent” is often the result of grit.