The Huffington Post – Daniel Goleman
“Studies at the University of Pennsylvania have found that students who don’t have the highest IQs in their class but get high grades share a quality called “grit.” They keep plugging away despite any setbacks or failures. And a 30-year longitudinal study of more than a thousand kids — the gold standard for uncovering relationships between behavioral variables — found that those children with the best cognitive control had the greatest financial success in their 30s. Cognitive control predicted success better than both the child’s IQ and the wealth of his or her family.” (more)