Grit, Part 2
Here is the promised continuation of comments from the book Grit by Angela Duckworth. *Teachers and coaches that assign values to players without a system of drills to show improvement are fixed mindset and create an environment where the player feels hopeless because they feel they have no control over their fate. *A fixed mindset about ability leads to pessimistic explanations of adversity, and that, in turn, leads to both giving up on challenges and avoiding them in the first…