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What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different…

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“Most broadly, they refer to the ability to deal with confusing and unpredictable situations and information. One”

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“What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character. For certain skills, the stark calculus”

“the child of a supermom who gets lots of extra tutoring and one-on-one support is going to do way better than an average well-loved…

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“the best way for a young person to build character is for him to attempt something where there is a real and serious possibility of failure. In a high-risk endeavor, whether it’s in business or athletics or the arts, you are more likely to experience colossal defeat than in a low-risk one—but you’re also more likely to achieve real and…

“The idea of building grit and building self-control is that you get that through failure,” Randolph told me. “And in most highly academic environments…

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“Tools of the Mind, by contrast, doesn’t focus much on reading and math abilities. Instead, all of its interventions are intended to help children learn a different kind of skill: controlling their impulses, staying focused on the task at hand, avoiding distractions and mental traps, managing their emotions, organizing their thoughts. The founders of Tools of the Mind believe that…

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more…

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And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

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“a passionate commitment to a single mission and an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission. She decided she needed to name this quality, and…

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“children were no longer receiving enough cognitive stimulation in the first three years of life, in part because of the increasing number of single-parent…

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“We “activate a physiological system that has evolved for responding to acute physical emergencies,” Sapolsky writes, “but we turn it on for months on…

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What if the Secret to Success is Failure?,

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