What Predicts Success? It’s Not Your IQ

This article fits perfectly into my blog this week – Leadership requires self confidence. This author calls expands and refers to cognitive control – or GRIT. “Cognitive control refers to the abilities to delay gratification in pursuit of your goals, maintaining impulse control, managing upsetting emotions well, holding focus, and possessing a readiness to learn.

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