Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

“What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes…

— Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

“the best way for a young person to build character is for him to attempt something where there is a real and…

— Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

“Tools of the Mind, by contrast, doesn’t focus much on reading and math abilities. Instead, all of its interventions are intended to…

— Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

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

— Paul Tough

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?,

— Paul Tough

“Chemistry is not destiny, certainly. But these scientists have demonstrated that the most reliable way to produce an adult who is brave…

— Paul Tough

“Researchers, including Michael Meaney and Clancy Blair, have demonstrated that for infants to develop qualities like perseverance and focus, they need a…

— Paul Tough

“Think about it,” Spiegel said. “Remember, when I ask you a question, you don’t have to answer right away. But you do…

— Paul Tough

What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the…

— Paul Tough

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all…

— Paul Tough

“What matters most in a child's development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the…

— Paul Tough

“Duckworth finds it useful to divide the mechanics of achievement into two separate dimensions: motivation and volition. Each one, she says, is…

— Paul Tough

“when children reach early adolescence, what motivates them most effectively isn’t licking and grooming–style care but a very different kind of attention.…

— Paul Tough

“Heckman discovered that when you consider all kinds of important future outcomes—annual income, unemployment rate, divorce rate, use of illegal drugs—GED recipients…

— Paul Tough

“Any time you need to use the term hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal in order to make your point, you’ve got trouble.”

— Paul Tough

“tend to react to negative events by explaining them as permanent, personal, and pervasive.7”

— Paul Tough

“Character Strengths and Virtues was an attempt to inaugurate a “science of good character.”

— Paul Tough

If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're…

— Paul Tough