Analysis Of Ted Talks

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College Algebra Mya Hanisch

Ted Talks (GRIT) November 29, 2015

Each day children, within the ages of five years old to eighteen, go to school for about eight hours a day. They learn a combination of math, English, science, reading, etc. Individually, the children increase their IQ as they continue their journey through their schooling career. Therefore, IQ is the major player when determining the child’s future. Now, this is where this assumption is false. The likelihood of anyone’s future is determined from the amount of GRIT the individual posses. These cases were taken to the test by Ms. Angela Duckworth. Angela Duckworth started as a teacher, from there she came across the idea of the differences between the best

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