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[0] checkbox [#] position [cover] cover [title] title How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character [author] author Tough, Paul * [isbn] isbn 0547564651 [isbn13] isbn13 9780547564654 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 256 pp [avg rating] avg rating 3.90 [num ratings] num ratings 14,372 [date pub] date pub Jan 01, 2012 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Sep 04, 2012 [rating] Lucas's rating 3 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 0 [votes] votes 0 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started Feb 26, 2014 [date read] date read Mar 18, 2014 [date added] date added Feb 26, 2014 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format Hardcover [29] actions view [review] 
review Calling one kind of thinking cognitive (traditional IQ test skills) and another non-cognitive (the ability/desire to persevere) is unproductive. It wo Calling one kind of thinking cognitive (traditional IQ test skills) and another non-cognitive (the ability/desire to persevere) is unproductive. It would be nice to have an attempt at the definition of cognition here. The section on chess is much too long. I suppose it has the advantage of being easy to study, and the ranking system is better than standardized test scores for talking about ability levels. But the author or one of the interview subjects admits half way through this chapter that beyond entertainment value that chess is completely useless. Probably there are some transferable skills there, but other examples could have been used as well. Lots of similar topics from Outliers are mentioned here, including the Kipp schools, and the 10,000 hours to master theory- in many the author takes different lessons from the examples. All of these books seem like a jumble of anecdotal stories and statistics that sometimes cohere into an argument (if the author does more cherry-picking, like in Outliers), or here just come out as superficially contradictory advice: Stress is bad, but adversity is good- the author never recognizes that they ought to try to resolve where the division between those two are (stress is bad when you can't get away from it, and adversity is good when some decent fraction of the time you do overcome it?). ...more
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