Could Higher Purpose Produce Higher GPAs? Recent Research says, "Yes"!

Ask yourself why you go through all the work and stress in your career. Why do you subject yourself to all that boring torture? Why the long hours? Why the sleepless nights? Why?

According to recent research, the philosophy behind that answer could make or break your chances for success.

In over a thousand interviews with lower-income high school seniors, the ones who answered that their goals in life were based on getting through high school in order to help others tended to do better academically. They also happened to pass the Marshmallow 2.0 Test mentioned in the last post.

Even just having high school freshman read inspiring quotes from their upperclassmen allowed them to attain the motivation and higher purpose need to raise there GPA by 0.2 points. That's the difference between a B+ and an A- (If, like me, you like Standard Reference Grading, that could change a 2.9 to a 3.1)!

So, when I'm bogged down in homework from about 80 different places, and it's an early Saturday night, why am I going on? Because I want to get through school so I can help troubled kids have the types of opportunities that I had.

That's inspiring enough for me.