How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

By Paul Tough

Categories: Education & Teaching, Parenting & Relationships

Journalist Paul Tough argues that children's success depends less on cognitive skills and more on character traits such as grit, curiosity, self-control and conscientiousness. He draws on research in economics, psychology and neuroscience, and visits schools and programs in Chicago, New York and elsewhere. Tough shows how stress and adversity affect children and how parents and teachers can help them build character.

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• Shane Parrish: “A book too interesting to skim. We’re raising kids to never fail so they can’t ever deal with adversity. We’re losing our toughness. More worrisome, we’re failing to teach them how to think and falsify our ideas. The chapter “How to think” is worth its weight in gold. I’ll have much more to say on this book”