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“Duckworth's observation that her most talented math students were not always the highest performers is what led her to study grit as a psychological construct.”

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Before her career in research, Angela was a math teacher in public schools. Her observations about student effort and performance motivated her to study psychology.

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Angela left a demanding job in consulting to teach math in public schools, where she noticed that IQ was not the only difference between her best and worst students.

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