What skills and traits make someone successful in life? Psychologist and researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to find out. What she discovered was the concept of "Grit". While it was about 100 pages too long in the opening, the meat of this book is so good. It helps you think about how to develop grit in your life, in your children, and how to measure it in others. It's fascinating and critical in a world changing rapidly.
His continuously-updated books page, where every book he reads gets a 1-10 rating and a "Why Read it" note; the book links carry his Amazon affiliate tag. The page carries no publication date for individual entries — its own metadata gives article:published_time 2012-12-16 and article:modified_time 2020-10-28, and books were added across that whole span. (undated page)
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