TheStar.com – Louise Brown
“Paul Tough (who wrote How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character ) said we’ve long focussed on cognitive skills as the most important key to success. But Tough said researchers have started to identify other skills that matter…”Poor kids have too much adversity in their lives; we’ve been letting them fail too much, so they need some protection from adversity, but…Affluent kids often don’t have enough adversity in their lives. What if the secret to success is knowing how to learn from failure?”” (more)