10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1power clean (185/125)1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10handstand push-up Struggle. In this NPR podcast, Alix Spiegel interviews UCLA professor Jim Stigler and Brown professor Jin Li about the differences between Eastern and Western school children and their actions toward struggle. As I listened to the observations and studies about Western children and their quickness to give up, I couldn’t help but think of my own struggles and my actions. Stigler spoke about a specific study done with Western and Eastern children that struck a chord. “We did a study many years ago with first-grade students,” he tells me. “We decided to go out and give the students an impossible math problem to work on, and then we would measure how long they worked on it before they gave up.” The American students “worked on it less than 30 seconds on average and then they basically looked at us and said, ‘We haven’t had this,’ ”...
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