Transcriber : Joseph Geni Reviewer : Morton Bast When I was 27 years old , I left a very demanding 要求高的 job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding 要求高的 : 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 打擊 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 表現者 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。
But these concepts are not impossible , and I was firmly convinced 說服 that every one of my students could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough .
但這些概念並非不可能掌握，我堅信只要學生足夠努力並堅持足夠長的時間，他們都能學會這些內容。
After several more years of teaching , I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective 觀點 , from a
在又教了幾年書之後，我得出了一個結論：教育界迫切需要從動機角度更深入地理解學生和學習的規律。
psychological perspective .
以及從心理學的角度來看。
In education , the one thing we know how to measure best is IQ .
在教育領域，我們最擅長測量的就是智商。
But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily ?
但如果在學校和生活中取得成功不僅僅取決於你快速輕鬆學習的能力呢？
So I left the classroom , and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist .
於是我離開了講臺，去研究生院攻讀心理學學位。
I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings 背景 , and in every study my question was , who is successful here and why ?
我開始研究各種極具挑戰性環境中的兒童和成人，而在每一項研究中，我的問題都是：誰在這裡取得了成功，原因是什麼？
My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy .
我和研究團隊去了西點軍校。
We tried to predict 預測 which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out .
我們試圖預測哪些學員能堅持完成軍事訓練，哪些會中途退學。
We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition .
我們去參加全國拼字比賽，試圖預測哪些孩子能在比賽中走得更遠。
We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods , asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year , and of those , who will
我們研究了在極其困難的社群工作的新教師，詢問哪些老師能堅持任教到學年結束，而在那些留下的老師中，誰能最有效地提升學生的學習成果？
be the most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students ?
最有效地提高他們學生的學習成績？
We partnered with private companies , asking , which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs ?
我們與私營企業合作，詢問哪些銷售人員能保住工作？
And who's going to earn the most money ?
誰會賺最多的錢？
In all those very different contexts , one characteristic emerged 出現 as a significant predictor 預測因素 of success .
在所有這些截然不同的情境中，有一種特質作為成功的重要預測指標浮現出來。
And it wasn't social intelligence .
但這並非源於社交智慧。
It wasn't good looks , physical health , and it wasn't IQ .
不是靠外貌、身體健康，也不是靠智商。
is passion and perseverance 毅力 for very long - term goals .
它是指對長期目標的激情與堅持。
Grit is having stamina 耐力 .
堅毅意味著擁有耐力。
