The Key To Success Grit Summary

The article “The key to success? Grit” by Angela Lee Duckworth was an article explaining that grit was the way to success. Angela had been a teacher at a New York City middle school, she was a regular teacher, she gave out test and quizzes but when the results were back they weren’t too good. She found that her best students weren’t doing so well, it convinced her that every one of her students can learn the material if they worked hard and long enough. Soon after several years of teaching, evidence of her hypothesis began to stack up and that we needed a much better understanding of students and learning, so she left the classroom and became a psychologist. She studied students from West Point and Public Schools, she even observed spelling