How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
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Channel: Microsoft Research · 2016 · Science & Technology
In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough explores the question of why some children succeed while others fail. He argues that the key to a childΓÇÖs success is not so much about intelligence, but character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. Tough traces the links between childhood stress and life success, and uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do ΓÇô and do not ΓÇô prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides new insights into how to help children growing up in poverty. How Children Succeed is a provocative and hopeful book that has the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and our understanding of childhood itself.
