Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance · chapter 1 · id grit-c1-02-neither-sat-scores-physical-fi

“Neither SAT scores, physical fitness, nor the Whole Candidate Score (West Point's comprehensive admissions metric) predicted who would survive Beast Barracks.”

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Duckworth et al. (2007), JPSP 92(6), 1087-1101DOI registry: valid

Self-control predicted GPA better than grit, but grit predicted retention in the military sample better than self-control.

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