So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset."
到目前為止,我所聽說過的在孩子身上培養堅韌品質最有效的方法叫“成長型思維模式。”
This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck,
斯坦福大學卡洛杜威克提出過一個觀點,
and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort.
他相信人的學習能力是可變的,它隨著你的努力程度而變化。
Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge,
杜威克教授表示,當孩子們閱讀和學習有關大腦的知識以及它在面對挑戰時所發生的變化和成長情況,
they're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition.
他們失敗之后更容易堅持下去,因為他們不相信會一直失敗下去。
So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. But we need more.
因此,成長性思維模式對培養毅力大有裨益。但是我們需要更多。
And that's where I'm going to end my remarks, because that's where we are.
我決定在此結束我的評論,因為我們正在經歷著這一切。
That's the work that stands before us.
這是眼前所面臨的工作。
We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them.
我們要拿出最好的想法和最強的直覺,我們要對他們進行實踐。
We need to measure whether we've been successful,
我們需要估量這一切是否成功,
and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
同時還要渴望對失敗和錯誤,要從這些失敗中汲取經驗重新再來。
In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier. Thank you.
換句話說,我們只有自己變得更有毅力才能讓我們的孩子變得更有毅力。謝謝大家!