duckworth identified and gives everyone this grid survey you can take on her website. the first test that allows west point to predict retention. they have been using every year. duckworth has gone on to show in so many different fields and domains from 12-year-old to the national spelling bee to teachers in teach for america that bridge is the most predicted variable you can look at. of trying to predict which 12-year-old will win the spelling bee the one with the highest i.q. score were the best grades grit is particularly important when it comes creativity. creativity is never easy. if it were easy the idea what already exists. the product already been invented. the book would already have been written. creativity always involve lots of failures and drafts and iterations. is never easy. woody allen said creative success, 80% of creative success is simply showing up. grit allows you to show up again and again. so far i have been attempting to describe these two distinct forms of creativity which depend on very distinct mental processes in the brain. the more practica

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walsh represents the far, far, far far, far right against a vet iran who is -- a veteran, tammy duckworththink we win that one. in new york henry berkel in syracuse, daniel faye a problem solver is running. i think we win that one. across the country, you can take a look at districts in a tsunami election where we had gail force wednesday against us, elected a tea party republican have a breeze at our back in those districts. >> i want to be sure i understand. it's 46 plus 18. >> correct. >> you have 64. >> 64. >> i will tell you what john boehner, two weeks ago, said that he believed they could lose control room. he said there was a one-third chance they could lose the majority. you know one-third, two-thirds for off-track betting it's interesting but i agree with him on this. he says there are 50 districts, republican districts that are threatened, that are challenged. i actually think it's more like 65 to 70. but i will take that 50 that john boehner by his own admission says are in trouble. and we only need half of that. >> right. now, i want to ask you if the ryan budget which all re

and he's running against tammy duckworth who is a wonderfully accomplished veteran and so i think that incredibly impressive woman. a woman who lost both of her legs and badly damaged arm. helicopter pilot in iraq or afghanistan. i forget which of the two. >> joe walsh is one of -- he's amongst the worst offenders. he's one of the host of a large number of these house republican tea partiers who came in the wave of 2010 and i think probably hopefully have a short shelf life in the house if everything goes right in 2012. >> bill: he's echoing rush limbaugh. he argues that obama was only elected because liberals would not vote against a black man when, as we know i never thought in my lifetime we would ever see an african-american elected because of the residual racial prejudice in this country. he's saying no, it is just the opposite. it is not hard for a black man to get elected. it is impossible for a black man to get defeated. to lose. >> i think that -- it undermines the challenges and the obstacles that obama faced. the fact that he actually had a campaign of ideas that won over a

. >> but if you read tammy duckworth the army helicopter pilot shot down in iraq who lost both her legsg for congress, incredibly courageous woman, she never doubted that she could survive. >> i think that's the difference. being able to do that. and i've noticed things in my life where i've always failed when i assumed that oh, it might not work out and i've always succeeded in ways that i -- beyond any expectation when i've just said you know what? this is going to work out. >> it has to be what i call realistic optimism. >> yeah. >> it has to be based on actual skills and capabilities. >> one of the things that is so incredible is you turned out to be a great public speaker, great tv performer, and great reporter. >> a great voice toonchts what are the secrets to getting people to tell their stories? >> well, what's amazing is i had to learn all this very quickly. i had never done any public speaking or interviewed before. this story was an incredible access to these people and get them to open up to me but you have to make a personal connection. you have to create an environment in