Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth

Angela Lee Duckworth works as a seventh grade mathematics teacher at a public school in New York. She immediately noticed that IQ is not the only factor to divide from students struggling for successful students. Here, she explains her "courage" theory as a predictor of success.

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What is gravel? According to Angela Lee Duckworth, gravel is "long-term goal passion and patience". Angela Duckworth is Professor of Distinguished Psychology from Christopher H. Browne of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder and science director of the role laboratory. The role laboratory, its mission is to promote the science and practice of personality development. Duckworth is the creator of Grit: The Power and Perseverance's passion. In this book, Mr. Duckworth explains his research by a student studying at West Point, an excellent finalist of the National Spelling Competition, and one of the most successful teachers. And the school 's analytical school. Duckworth's research focuses on two characteristics of predictive achievement, gravel and self-control.

The grit defined by Angela Duckworth's grit, passion and perseverance means 'consistency and enthusiasm for long-term goals.' In her book, Duckworth presents some tough people - attention to their goals and then an important example of people who will achieve their goals enthusiastically and wisely. My ultimate goal as a product manager is to change the world even with a small number of users. As an agile practitioner I know that the repetition of imperfect products is the reason for producing better, more influential products. Duckworth's research on gravel led me to think whether I was doing my best to become a good product manager and led me to think about the product manager I thought was difficult.