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“To master a new concept in math, science, or a foreign language, it typically takes seven or eight practice sessions.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

“To figure out what students were carrying with them from kindergarten into adulthood, Chetty’s team turned to another possible explanation. In fourth and eighth grade, the students were rated by their teachers on some other qualities. Here’s a sample: Proactive: How often did they take initiative to ask questions, volunteer answers, seek information from books, and engage the teacher to learn outside class? Prosocial: How well did they get along and collaborate with peers? Disciplined: How effectively did they pay attention—and resist the impulse to disrupt the class? Determined: How consistently did they take on challenging problems, do more than the assigned work, and persist in the face of obstacles? When students were taught by more experienced kindergarten teachers, their fourth-grade teachers rated them higher on all four of these attributes. So did their eighth-grade teachers. The capacities to be proactive, prosocial, disciplined, and determined stayed with students longer—and ultimately proved more powerful—than early math and reading skills.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

“What look like differences in natural ability are often differences in opportunity and motivation.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

“The Tennessee experiment contained a startling result. Chetty was able to predict the success that students achieved as adults simply by looking at who taught their kindergarten class. By age 25, students who happened to have had more experienced kindergarten teachers were earning significantly more money than their peers.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things