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Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina.
毅力是對長遠目標的激情和堅持。毅力是擁有持久的恒勁。
Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month,
毅力是你對未來的堅持，日復一日，不是僅僅持續一個星期或者一個月，
but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality.
而是幾年甚至幾十年努力奮斗著讓自己的夢想變為現實。
Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.
毅力是把生活當成一場馬拉松而不是一次短跑。
A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools.
幾年前，在芝加哥的公立學校里，我開始研究毅力。
I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires,
我對上千名初中生進行了關于毅力的問卷調查，
and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate.
然后等候了一年多，來看最終哪些學生能畢業。
Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate,
結果證明那些更具毅力的學生在畢業的概率上占絕對優勢，
even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure,
即使是在同樣可以量化的外在因素下，
things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
像家庭收入、標準化成績測驗的分數，甚至是孩子們在學校能獲得多少安全感之類。
So it's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters.
所以不僅僅是在西點軍校里或者全國拼字比賽上才需要毅力。
It's also in school, especially for kids at risk for dropping out.
在學校亦是如此，尤其是對于那些徘徊在輟學邊緣的孩子們。
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
對于我自己來說，關于毅力最讓我震驚的事情莫過于對于毅力我們知之甚少，在培養毅力上科學對理解的認識又是何等貧乏。
Every day, parents and teachers ask me, "How do I build grit in kids?
每天都有家長和老師來問我，“我怎樣做才能培養孩子的毅力呢？
What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?"
該做些什么才能教授給孩子們真正的職業道德？又該怎樣調動他們長期的積極性呢？”
The honest answer is, I don't know.
老實說，我不知道。
What I do know is that talent doesn't make you gritty.
我所知道的是，才華并不能使你堅韌不拔。
Our data show very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments.
我們的數據十分清楚地表明，有許多才華橫溢的人，他們都無法堅持兌現自己的承諾。
In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.
事實上，根據我們的數據來看，毅力通常與其他因素無關，甚至與才華的衡量標準背道而馳。
