Add DMNews to your Google News feed. Tension: The personal promise of meritocracy—work hard and you’ll succeed—collides with a system that often rewards visibility, conformity, or pure luck. Noise: ...

A new study shows how damaging it can be for college students in introductory STEM classes to compare how hard they work to the extent of effort put in by their peers. A new study shows how damaging ...

As an exchange student at the University of Connecticut, the first thing I was struck by was how big the campus is. The second thing was how busy it is. In a university with 24,356 undergraduates, it ...

If you've ever had to grind for every win, these things will hit a little too close to home. It’s no surprise that the virtue of hard work is an incredibly personal and important characteristic.

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