You pointed to a very important topic to discuss: How to progress in academia within a context of continuous turbulent wind of change:
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This seems to refer to motivational factors or non cognitive determinants for academic success.
few works are reported in literature, with respect to collge students, high school students , some of these are from reputed universities such as cornell, university of helsinky.
work of corel dweck may interest you in this regar. Dweck C. S. (2007). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York, NY: Random House.
1. Intrinsic motivation, Need for cognition, Grit, Growth Mindset and Academic Achievement in High School Students: Latent Profiles and Its Predictive Effects, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.04552
2. Polirstok, S. (2017). Strategies to Improve Academic Achievement in Secondary School Students: Perspectives on Grit and Mindset. SAGE Open, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244017745111