The growth mindset can be taught to faculty, students and parents. Growth mindset is changing a student’s thinking that intelligence level is not a fixed number and can change. Grit in education is how one can achieve long-term goals by overcoming obstacles and challenges. Duckworth and Dweck collaborated, conducting studies to determine how a fixed belief that failure is permanent could prevent students from academic success. Duckworth concluded that having a “growth mindset” could develop grit. Identifying explanatory style using the Grit assessment is one way to determine where students can put their efforts to learn to persist in the face of academic challenges. Faculty should not focus on making just good grades, but how to challenge that person and teach them to create solutions. In addition, teaching a growth mindset and grit facilitates long-term goals and how to achieve them