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I'm a psychologist and I study achievement.
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Most psychologists who study
achievement study intelligence.
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And if the last talk didn't convince you
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and I have a suspicion you didn't
need a whole lot of convincing,
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intelligence is, there's only part of the story,
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maybe a very small part of the story.
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And it is, in fact possible that we even have
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that small part of the story wrong.
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In terms of intelligence being thought to be
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something largely inherited and not developed.
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Something that is relatively immutable
over the course of one's life.
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But I came to a study of all the other
things that intelligence,
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everything else, that made up achievement.
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In kind of a circuitous route --
so I was 32 when I started graduate school.
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You know, I turned to my left and to my right and
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everybody else was drinking cappuccino and studying at
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one in the morning because they were 22, not 32.
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And so, I actually think my
life story is a great example
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of actually not have grit,
not having enough grit.
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Maybe some talent but not actually having --
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What I now study is one of the key and
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probably necessary ingredients of high achievement
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in any field that you want to consider.
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So, what I did between the age of 22 and 32 was many
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different things all of which I think
sounded good on a resume.
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I was a McKinsey Consultant, I went to Oxford
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for a couple of years on a prestigious fellowship.
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I was the COO of a non-profit website for parents
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to get school information that sounds good,
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that was good, sounds good and was good.
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I taught in various schools in New York
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and in Philadelphia and in San Francisco.
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And all this added up to
a great person to have dinner with
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because that person, had done
a lot of interesting things
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and have done most of those
things actually relatively well.
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But what I realized is that if you are a boat,
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a really fast, shiny boat,
which is going quickly towards
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one destination but then
tacks to another direction,
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to go to another port, and then tacks again --
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Essentially you end up being a really
shiny boat that goes fast nowhere.
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And, so my own kind of personal experience
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and probably my lack of grit, actually,
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led me to study this quality in some detail.
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And I'm gonna mention,
something that I'll get to
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later in the talk but it's called the "10 year rule."
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It turns out that there is really no domain of expertise
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that has been studied where the world class performers
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have put in fewer than 10 years of consistent,
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deliberate practice to get to where they are.
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So, I started graduate school in 2002 --
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