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             YouTube is a site where you can find thousands of videos, some of them could be educational some of them couldn't. This video gives us a sence that everybody has an opportunity to achieve anything. How? It is your grit! The grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out,not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality.

       Angela Lee Duckworth, who is the speaker of this video, gives us one of the examples. She asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires to see who would graduate and it turned out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate. Even when she matched them on every characteristic Angela Lee could measure like family income, standart IQ tests and how safe kids felt at school. 

     After you've watched the video, I'd like you to answer some questions.
Do you understand the definition of the 'grit' clearly?
Do you find this video helpful?


      Angela Lee Duckworth even created a grit test which measures how gritty you are.
You can even take a grit test here.



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