Grit: The Key to Success

Hard work often gets the short shrift when it comes to explaining someone’s s[image error]uccess. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, we love to romanticize achievement, as though raw talent and something we call “genius” are the real determining qualities of accomplishment. Named a MacArthur fellow, and given what is colloquially known as a “genius grant,”Angela Duckworth has personal stakes in how we understand success.[image error]

Not only because the title of “genius” was bestowed upon her, but because her l...