And So We Keep On Thinking, Because

The Vocational Approach At Nocca (new Orleans Center For The Creative Arts) Helps Build Grit In Students. It Teaches Them How To Be Single-minded In Pursuit Of A Goal, To Sacrifice For The Sake Of A Passion. The Teachers Demand Hard Work From Their Kids Because They Know, From Personal Experience, That Creative Success Requires Nothing Less.

Children Can't Help But Create: They Need To Put Their Mind On The Page, They Want To Paint, To Sculpt, To Write Short Stories.

For Too Long, We've Assumed That There Is A Single Template For Human Nature, Which Is Why We Diagnose Most Deviations As Disorders. But The Reality Is That There Are Many Different Kinds Of Minds. And That's A Very Good Thing.

Distance And Difference Are The Secret Tonic Of Creativity. When We Get Home, Home Is Still The Same. But Something In Our Mind Has Been Changed, And That Changes Everything.

It Doesn't Matter If People Are Playing Jazz Or Writing Poetry. If They Want To Be Successful, They Need To Learn How To Persist And Persevere And Keep On Working Until The Work Is Done... I Bet There Isn't A Single Highly Successful Person Who Has Not Depended On Grit. Nobody Is Talented Enough To Not Have To Work Hard, And That's What Grit Allows You To Do.