{"id":11962,"date":"2016-05-19T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=11962"},"modified":"2016-05-19T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:37:35","slug":"grit-is-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/grit-is-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Grit is Overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/got_grit1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/got_grit1-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"got_grit1\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2016-05-evidence-grit-analysis.html\">recent study<\/a> just demonstrated what I have always believed, that grit is overrated. Grit has become a buzzword in education and child development as an attribute that is highly predictive of success and is easily developed. But, as with most &#8216;solutions du jour&#8217; for the challenges our children face, grit is simplistic and has been oversold. The reality is that performance is a highly complex experience that can&#8217;t be reduced to a few simple strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study just demonstrated what I have always believed, that grit is overrated. Grit has become a buzzword in education and child development as an attribute that is highly predictive of success and is easily developed. But, as with most &#8216;solutions du jour&#8217; for the challenges our children face, grit is simplistic and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1820,1517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}