And after hundreds of conversations with teenagers and teachers and parents and employers and schools from Paraguay to Australia, and looking at some of the academic research, which showed the importance of what's now called non-cognitive skills -- the skills of motivation, resilience -- and that these are as important as the cognitive skills -- formal academic skills -- we came up with an answer, a very simple answer in a way,
经过数百次与青少年、老师 家长、雇主以及学校的交流 从巴拉圭 到澳大利亚 同时查找了一些学术研究 表明了我们现在所谓的 非认知性机能的重要性-- 动机、应变能力的技能-- 这些技能和认知性机能 同样重要--和正规学术技能一样-- 我们得出一个结论，某种程度上说一个非常简单的答案