quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

the final grade, many students leave a
lot of questions blank. You’d have to be
pretty persistent to answer every single
one. But it turns out, according to a
study by education professor Erling
Boe, that the nations whose students fill
out more of the questionnaire also tend
to have students who do well on the
TIMSS test. In other words, excellent
students seem not only to possess the
cognitive ability to solve math and science
problems, but also to have a useful
personality characteristic: quiet
persistence.
Other studies have also found unusual
levels of persistence in even very
young Asian children. For example, the
cross-cultural psychologist Priscilla
Blinco gave Japanese and American
first graders an unsolvable puzzle to
work on in solitude, without the help of
other children or a teacher, and
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