My daughter mentioned this book to us because she was very interested to note that the four-step program (per the excerpt from the review below) was very much the way we raised her and our other children, and, was also the way my parents raised us.
“Duckworth offers what amounts to a four-step program, the last step of which is to overcome pessimism by cultivating what her fellow psychologist Carol Dweck calls a “growth mind-set.” I just have to complete Steps 1 through 3 first: (1) identify a burning interest; (2) practice it a lot; and (3) develop a sense of higher purpose, by which Duckworth means I must believe that my passion will improve the world.”
Wonderful to see this approach is alive and well, because it does seem to work.
