Earlier this month, I reported on recently published findings from an 18-year-long "perseverance" study (Zainal & Newman, 2019) which found that people who were able to reframe setbacks with a ...

Always a John Wayne fan, I became a bigger one after watching "True Grit" and associating it with the region in which I was raised. Set in the 1880s, Charles Portis' 1968 novel describes 14-year-old ...

All you need is some true grit. A new study of more than 11,000 West Point cadets over 10 years found that “grit” was the most important trait for success — beating out brains and brawn. Researchers — ...