Hi everybody this is Gatsad in my forthcoming book the sad truth about

happiness which I hope that you will head off after watching or listening to

this clip and pre-order your copy. I have a chapter on the importance

of persistence and on the importance of being anti-f fragile to failure.

The idea is of course that many of the things that are worthwhile to pursue in life

are laden with obstacles, with difficulties, so it requires resilience and grit and exposure to the possibility

of failure and then how you rebound from that failure and so I have a whole chapter on that

topic with you know many personal anecdotes backed up by ancient wisdoms and modern science and so today I wanted to

contextualize that chapter in the against the backdrop of this following article which I'm about to read, maybe all of it or some

of it and I'll put it in the link.

So this is in the College Fix March 27, 2023, the title of the article is Some Colleges

Eliminate Grading, cites students, poor mental health, and lack of preparation.

Ungrading is a growing trend according to NPR.

More colleges are eliminating the standard A through F letter grading system for their students in an attempt to help them transition to college

and manage their mental health. Called ungrading, the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education, especially for

freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college, who weren't well prepared

for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it.

NPR reported Sunday.

Some advocates say students are too preoccupied with grades to focus on learning and grades don't measure mastery of concepts the news outlet

reported

Grades are not a representation of student learning J Jody Green, special advisor to the provost for educational

equity and academic success at the University of California, Santa Cruz told NPR.

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