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She noticed an IQ difference between the children. After a few a years of teaching she gave kids tests to see the difference in their studying habits over the IQ test. After seeing the results of the test she went to grad school to become a psychologist. She began to conduct research from cadets fighting through to stay at West Point. She also went to a National Spelling Bee to see how far kids pushed to stay in it. Duckworth proposes that Grit (passion and perseverance for long term goals) was what pushed these people hard enough. She explains that grit is like stamina, you have to run like life is a marathon, opposed to a sprint. Children in school have grit due to the fact they make themselves feel comfortable and focus hard in what they do. Her argument to those who do not agree with her is how much of grit is happening in everyday life and how many people do it everyday and do not even …show more content…
He explains how in popular culture and entertainment that society tends to enjoy, villains are portrayed as cool. They are presented as “cool” due to the fact they do whatever they want and do not care about what is being done. These types of villains are the “ aesthetic of evil”. Daniel then proceeds to explain how a perspective effects the whole story line. Good and evil is just a view. If you look at both sides with an open mind you can see how evil is just a story by which 2 people or group has a conflict. Also, Daniel points out the fact that most evil characters always have a fictitious name. These pseudonyms make this people who they are and remembered. Society likes the bad guys in films, so by having a chapters with unique and cool pseudonyms viewers are more interested and