Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Duckworth | TED

Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching.

當我27歲時，我辭去了管理諮詢行業那份極具挑戰性的工作，轉而從事一份更具挑戰性的職業：教書。

I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.

我去紐約市的公立學校教七年級的數學。

And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests.

和任何老師一樣，我也出測驗卷和考試卷。

I gave out homework assignments.

我佈置家庭作業。

When the work came back, I calculated grades.

作業交上來後，我就計算分數。

What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students.

讓我感到驚訝的是，智商並不是我表現最好和最差學生之間的唯一差異。

Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores.

一些表現最出色的學生並沒有極高的智商分數。

Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well.

有些聰明的孩子成績卻並不理想。

And that got me thinking.

這讓我開始思考。

The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they're hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram.

七年級數學需要學習的內容確實很難：比如比例、小數和平行四邊形的面積。