Marcus Crede's Grit Theory
Grit, the display and actions of perseverance with strength, won't get you very far in life as you might think. You're not gonna have the urge to motivate yourself with ‘grittiness’ after you read what Professor Marcus Crede from Iowa State University has to say. Decide for yourself after reading this article if you concur with the Dr., and author, whose life work was devoted to the thought of grit and its repercussions, or if you side with the Professor at a college university who is in complete disbelief of this theory. Marcus Crede demotes Dr. Angela Duckworth’s life work on the study of grit, and her claim about how if you posses true grit that you are 98% more likely to succeed at anything you do. Which even Duckworth admits to the charge
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of “badly describing the size of her outcomes.” In reality the Drs. Studies showed that the people who possessed the most grit only differed by 3 percentile points, a pathetic outcome for the grit theory.
Professor Crede points out a crucial flaw in Angela Duckworth’s work by stating that grit is NOT a skill, and that it's not something you can learn to do, it is a trait, a part of your genetics. So even if grit did make a huge difference in your achievement level as Duckworth insisted. Understand that no one would learn, or be able to apply the knowledge from her studies or TED talks because they already possess that “skill” and for those who don't, well, they never will. However, psychiatric Drs. say that it IS possible to improve a person's likelihood of success, but only as they're brains are still developing, and only by molding children's personalities at some sort of physico boarding school, which we as individuals have to admit is very inhuman. In addition, adding grit to a child's personality isn't exactly what would be needed to make their personality prone to achievement, but is highly correlated with a known personality changing trait. To conclude this paragraph, I would like to state that grit does in fact alter your attainment. The argument is, is it worth changing one's personality for
it.
of “badly describing the size of her outcomes.” In reality the Drs. Studies showed that the people who possessed the most grit only differed by 3 percentile points, a pathetic outcome for the grit theory.
Professor Crede points out a crucial flaw in Angela Duckworth’s work by stating that grit is NOT a skill, and that it's not something you can learn to do, it is a trait, a part of your genetics. So even if grit did make a huge difference in your achievement level as Duckworth insisted. Understand that no one would learn, or be able to apply the knowledge from her studies or TED talks because they already possess that “skill” and for those who don't, well, they never will. However, psychiatric Drs. say that it IS possible to improve a person's likelihood of success, but only as they're brains are still developing, and only by molding children's personalities at some sort of physico boarding school, which we as individuals have to admit is very inhuman. In addition, adding grit to a child's personality isn't exactly what would be needed to make their personality prone to achievement, but is highly correlated with a known personality changing trait. To conclude this paragraph, I would like to state that grit does in fact alter your attainment. The argument is, is it worth changing one's personality for
it.