As a high school and middle school teacher for many years, I watched with interest as the buzzword “grit” roared into dominance on the teaching and parenting scene. I started hearing that grit, or a ...

Rachel Martin talks with Angela Duckworth, the psychologist who brought the idea of "grit" as a marker of success into the American mainstream. Her book posits that achievement is about persistence.

Being thought of as a "high-achiever" sounds like an ideal superlative. After all, who doesn't want to be well-accomplished and known for their motivation, resilience and drive? That being said, it's ...

This is the second in a series of blog posts about grit (read the first, here). Our recent exploration of the Gal Gadot (attention-grabbing, beloved, celebrity) of personality traits is grit. This ...