The key to success? Grit - Angela Lee

Angela Lee Duckworth explained  that when she was 27 years old, she took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school.

After several years of teaching, she realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled,  and came with the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective. What if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily?

That's why she decided to graduate school to become a psychologist. She started studying kids and adults in all kinds of challenging settings, and in every study her question was, who is successful here and why? In her research,one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't neither social intelligence nor good looks and physical health, it wasn't IQ either . It was grit.

She defined grit as passion and perseverance for very long-term goals, 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. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.For her,the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know and how little science knows about building it. 

So far, the best idea she has heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset", it's belief is that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort, so failure isn't a permanent condition.

Growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. However, Angela explains that we need more, and that's the work that stands before us. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
In other words, adults need to be gritty about getting their kids grittier.

DREAMS FOR ENDANGERED CULTURES

DREAMS FOR ENDANGERED CULTURES  

You know, one of the intense pleasures of travel and one of the delights of ethnographic research is the opportunity to live amongst those who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants. And of course, we all share the same adaptive imperatives. We're all born. We all bring our children into the world. We go through initiation rites. We have to deal with the inexorable separation of death, so it shouldn't surprise us that we all sing, we all dance, we all have art.

But what's interesting is the unique cadence of the song, the rhythm of the dance in every culture. And whether it is the Penan in the forests of Borneo, or the Voodoo acolytes in Haiti, or the warriors in the Kaisut desert of Northern Kenya, the Curandero in the mountains of the Andes, or a caravanserai in the middle of the Sahara or the Everest.

They're no longer being taught to babies, which means, effectively, unless something changes, they're already dead. What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your language, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the ancestors or anticipate the promise of the children? And yet, that dreadful fate is indeed the plight of somebody somewhere on Earth roughly every two weeks, because every two weeks, some elder diesand carries with him into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue.

HOW AUTISM FREED ME TO BE MYSELF (BY ROSIE KING- IRENE VEZZOLI)

 

People usually associate autism with silent people, with a human being quiet all his life, and not with people that love to speak as Rosie, but that’s a stereotype, and nowadays most of them are wrong.

The woman explains that the actual society is very afraid of variety and think that everyone has to fit in a little box, but she doesn’t agree with that thought. Why do we continue believing that people and following their stupid rules?

As an autistic woman, Rosie explains that she is very imaginative and that her “illness” has allowed her to actually be herself and not caring about other people’s opinion.

She also highlights that in her opinion, even though autism has a lot of advantages, it also has some troubles, as going to school, because teachers are not used to treat with people with that kind of problems.

Finally, she concludes her speech explaining that instead of excluding people who doesn’t fit in the box, we should celebrate uniqueness and respect everyone’s personality.

 

How we'll find life on other planets

How we'll find life on other planets

Thid ted talk is about the life in other planets. A girl explains to us that she study more tan other scientifics, she go far away and look for life in other planets, and she studies the possiblity that we have to life in other planet, the clima, the atmosphere. The girl says that she Works in a school with black girls and she teaches to her astronomy

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YOUR FUTURE SELF

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YOUR FUTURE SELF

According to Dan Gilbert, ‘human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished’.

In this speech he explains that we usually think that the person we are right now is the one we will be for the rest of our live and that it’s not true. We are constantly making decisions that will influence our future live, decisions that at the moment we think they are the best and maybe after ten years we aren’t thrilled with them. We change things as our values and personality, our likes, our dislikes, our preferences, as our best friend, our favourite place, our favourite hobby...

In conclusion, this ted talk tries to make us know time’s powerful force and that the only constant in our life is change.

Marina G.M.

Jill Heinerth: The mysterious world of underwater caves

Jill Heinerth is a cave diver, and she investigates the underwater connections around the world.

When she dive in the sea, discover a lot of new things that we can’t imagine never, like a new prehistorical animals with a long live that they live in the time of dinosaurs, or new things about the earth, like a the climatic change or the dirty earth in other times, … . She works with biologists, scientists and physics, and every day they discover new things about the submarine caves and the connections.

One of his favourite works, is when she was helped for did a three-dimensional map of the caves, 15 years ago. And one interesting material that she uses are a special bottles that last more than 20 hours, incredible.

In conclusion say that the dream of this woman was went to space, but finally chose to be a cave diver, despite the danger.

Toni Garau

(Elisa Ramos)

Forget shopping. Soon You'll Download Your New Clothes

Danit Pleg is a woman who started a new project turned into a collection of 3D-printed designs. She designed dresses but the material of clothe was very rigid. So she looked for others materials that have the strength and flexibility for everyday wear. Now, Danit is the first person that has designed the first 3D-printed fashion collection. She says that fashion is a very physical thing. She wonders about how our world will look like when your clothes will be digital.

A Realistic Vision for World Peace (Marta Cardeñes)

A REALISTIC VISION FOR WORLD PEACE

This video is about recovering the meaning of peace. We have to define what makes us feel safe in this world. It is that countries stop providing arms, and use the money rationally to give more security to the world.

The state has to use the money to help animals or look for cures for diseases and not to modernize arms.

The woman explains the case of Aung Sun Suu Kyi, a woman who spent fifteen years in prison for defending democracy in his country. Now, she is back on the streets to defend their ideals. She doesn’t believe in the hope for change unless we do something.  She also shows the example of Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim who received a Nobel Peace Prize. Another reference is Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, she was dedicated to planting trees.

Jody Williams's conclusion is that people need to get up and take action to recover the meaning of peace. If we care about changing the world, this would change.

There are many more women who want to change the world and if they work together, they will produce a change in their country.

Marta Cardeñes Folch

by Lucianne Walkowicz (Iñaki Coll)

Lucianne Walkowicz works on NASA, she search places in the universe that could support life. She suggests that we stop dreaming of Mars as a place that we'll eventually move to when we've messed up Earth, and to start thinking of planetary exploration to find another planet when we can go when the Earth has been extinct.

Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil

<<Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.>>

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil. God's favorite angel was Lucifer. Apparently, Lucifer means "the light." It also means "the morning star," in some scripture. And apparently, he disobeyed God, and that's the ultimate disobedience to authority. And when he did, Michael, the archangel, was sent to kick him out of heaven along with the other fallen angels. And so Lucifer descends into hell, becomes Satan, becomes the devil, and the force of evil in the universe begins.

Paradoxically, it was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though. So, this arc of the cosmic transformation of God's favorite angel into the Devil, for me, sets the context for understanding human beings who are transformed from good, ordinary people into perpetrators of evil. So the Lucifer effect, although it focuses on the negatives -- the negatives that people can become, not the negatives that people are -- leads me to a psychological definition. Evil is the exercise of power. And that's the key: it's about power. To intentionally harm people psychologically, to hurt people physically, to destroy people mortally, or ideas, and to commit crimes against humanity.  

Comparing with Prison of Abu Ghraib in Iraq, he was shocked, but not surprised, because he had seen those same visual parallels when he was the prison superintendent of the Stanford Prison Study.

The woman (Christina Maslach) who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When he said it got out of control, he was the prison superintendent. He didn't know it was out of control. Philip was totally indifferent. She saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners nor guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." Philip ended the study the next day, the good news is that he married her the next year. 

(A.Estephany)