What a Private Investigator Can Learn from a Schoolteacher

By Brian Willingham

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Angela Lee Duckworth was a high-flying consultant for McKinsey until she left her job to teach math in public schools. After five years of teaching seventh-graders, she went on to complete her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied students, West Point cadets and corporate salespeople to determine what made them successful.

While the most commonly held belief was that talent and IQ were the keys to a better, more successful life, her research found that “grit” was a better indicator of personal and professional success than any other factor.

In this day and age of I-need-answers-now, grit is a trait that often gets forgotten.

If you don’t find what you are looking for on the first page of Google, it doesn’t mean the answer is not out there. I often joke that if investigations were that easy, everyone would be doing them.

What every good investigator knows is that you need grit, perseverance and sheer determination to elevate yourself.

That may require chasing down every last lead and interviewing 47 witnesses before you find that one golden nugget of information.

Or it may require reviewing 10,742 tweets before you find that one tweet that could break the case wide open.

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Source:: Pry-Eye