TED：Grit: The power of passion and perseverance（Angela Lee Duckworth）

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Grit: The power of passion and perseverance

When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching.  在我27岁的时候，我辞掉了一份要求很高的管理咨询工作，转而从事一份要求更高的工作:教学。

I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.  我去纽约的公立学校教七年级的数学。

And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests.  和其他老师一样，我也会做小测验和测验。

I gave out homework assignments.  我布置了家庭作业。

When the work came back, I calculated grades.作业收回来后，我计算成绩。

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What struck me was that I.Q. was not the only difference between my best and my worst students.  让我震惊的是，智商并不是我最好和最差学生之间的唯一区别。

Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric I.Q. scores.  我的一些表现最好的学生并没有很高的智商。

Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well.我的一些最聪明的孩子表现不太好。

And that got me thinking.  这让我开始思考。

The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they're hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram.  你在七年级数学中需要学习的东西，当然，它们很难:比率，小数，平行四边形的面积。

But these concepts are not impossible, and I was firmly convinced that every one of my students could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough.但这些概念并不是不可能的，我坚信，我的每一个学生都能