The Energies of Men

James, William

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“…Aside from working diligently in face of adversity, gritty individuals demonstrate long-term stamina, an attribute not encompassed by conscientiousness. While the connection between discipline and accomplishment is not a new idea (James, 1907), the high volume of empirical research showing positive relationships between grit and entrepreneurial performance (Mueller, Wolfe, & Syed, 2017), job retention in various professions (Robertson-Kraft & Duckworth, 2014;Winkler, Shulman, Beal, & Duckworth, 2014), and lasting marriages (Winkler et al, 2014), warrants investigation into grit's ability to predict academic performance.…”

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Grit, Mindset, and Academic Performance: A Study of Pre-University Science Students

Bazelais

Lemay

Doleck

et al. 2018

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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Recent studies in educational psychology highlight the role of motivational variables such as trait-like perseverance. Studies have linked such variables (e.g., grit and mindset) to academic performance. However, research has reported inconsistent findings in explaining academic achievement differences. Drawing from a sample of pre-university students (N = 309), the present study assesses the efficacy of both grit and mindset in predicting academic achievement. The results suggest that neither grit, nor mindset was predictive of academic achievement. These findings have significant theoretical and practical implications.

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Section: Grit and Academic Performancementioning

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Grit, Mindset, and Academic Performance: A Study of Pre-University Science Students

Bazelais

Lemay

Doleck

et al. 2018

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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“…Over a century ago, William James (1907) argued that people’s levels of physical and mental energy are not always the same but change from day to day. He argued that “Every one is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days.…”

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Beliefs about willpower moderate the effect of previous day demands on next day’s expectations and effective goal striving

Bernecker

Job

2015

Front. Psychol.

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Research suggests that beliefs about willpower affect self-regulation following previous self-regulatory demands (Job et al., 2010). Some people believe that their willpower is limited, meaning that after a demanding task it needs to be replenished (limited theory). By contrast, others believe that willpower is not limited and that previous self-control tasks even activate willpower (non-limited theory). We hypothesized that when people experience a demanding day their beliefs about willpower predict their expected capacity to self-regulate and their actual self-regulation on the following day. In a daily diary study (N = 157), we measured students’ daily level of demands, their expected performance in unpleasant tasks, and their effective goal striving. Results showed that following a demanding day, students with a non-limited theory had higher expectations about their progress in unpleasant tasks and were striving more efficiently for their goals than students with a limited theory. These findings suggest that beliefs about willpower affect whether demands experienced on a previous day have positive or negative consequences on people’s self-regulation.

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“…This kind of generativity means very few outstincts are long-term: I assume that what we call life is perpetually dynamic and emergent. Classically, this was Nietzsche's insight (cited in Braver, 2007: 125) contra Hegel: 'the sole fundamental fact is that [the world] does not aim at a final state', but it is equally the insight of William James (1913) and many other authors toothe world is an exercise of 'things in the making'.…”

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The ‘sentient’ city and what it may portend

Thrift

2014

Big Data & Society

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The claim is frequently made that, as cities become loaded up with information and communications technology and a resultant profusion of data, so they are becoming sentient. But what might this mean? This paper offers some insights into this claim by, first of all, reworking the notion of the social as a spatial complex of 'outstincts'. That makes it possible, secondly, to reconsider what a city which is aware of itself might look like, both by examining what kinds of technological practices are becoming commonplace and by considering the particular case of spatial awareness. In turn, this leads to a third rumination on how cities might become aware as different kinds of sprite, channelling outstincts in spatially variable ways. Whatever the case, it is clear that new technical-artistic interventions are required if these sprites are not to become simply servants of the security-entertainment complex. Some of these interventions are examined in the fourth part of the paper.

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The Energies of Men

Cited by 49 publications

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Grit, Mindset, and Academic Performance: A Study of Pre-University Science Students

Grit, Mindset, and Academic Performance: A Study of Pre-University Science Students

Beliefs about willpower moderate the effect of previous day demands on next day’s expectations and effective goal striving

The ‘sentient’ city and what it may portend

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