How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character

Why do some children succeed while others fail? Paul Tough, author of the fascinating new book, How Children Succeed, joins us to challenge the notion that a child’s future success is predicated on IQ and performance on standardized tests. Researchers have recently discovered that cognitive skills matter a lot less than has been previously thought and as Paul Tough explains in this month’s main interview, the very latest research is telling us that what matters most in determining a child’s success or failure is very different from what the conventional wisdom tells us.