What doesn’t kill you DOES make you stronger!

What doesn’t kill you DOES make you stronger!

Scientists at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management have established a causal relationship between failure and future success, proving German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s adage that “what does not kill me makes me stronger.” Source: Science demonstrates that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Researchers find that early-career failure promotes future professional success — ScienceDaily…

Moving past the marshmallow test to predict future success

Moving past the marshmallow test to predict future success

Kindergarten children whose teachers rate them as being highly inattentive tend to earn less in their 30s than classmates who are rated highly “pro-social,” according to a recent paper in JAMA Psychiatry. In fact, inattention could prove to be a better predictor of future educational and occupational success than the famous “marshmallow test” designed to assess a…

A child’s educational success is dependent on their background

A child’s educational success is dependent on their background

Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success; it still depends on their parents’ economic, socio-cultural and educational resources. This contradicts a commonly held view that these days that our education system has developed enough to give everyone a fighting chance. Source: Educational success among children of similar cognitive ability depends…