Prince Rahul's Key Ideas from Grit
by Angela Duckworth

• Effort (which is sustained by grit) is doubly important. 
•  You must put in effort to hone your natural talents into tangible skills through practice and improvement.
• You must also put in effort to apply those skills to solve real-world problems to attain achievement.
• Talent x Effort = Skill
• Skill x Effort = Achievement

• INTEREST: Loving what you do.
• PRACTICE: Focusing on improvement no matter what.
• PURPOSE: Believing strongly that your work matters to yourself and to others.
• HOPE: Works hand-in-hand with all 3 components above to determine how you respond to failures—if you get up and keep going, or stay down and be defeated.

• Our interests, passions and calling are not inborn; they’re cultivated over time.

• Grit paragons don’t suddenly discover their passion in a magical, fireworks-filled moment. Instead, they spend years exploring different interests before focusing on one area.

• As they practice and hone their skills, they also develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of their craft until it becomes a burning passion.

• Spend time to explore and discover your interest.

• Deep interest emerges with time, and comes from a blend of age, real-life triggers, a period of interest development and support from others.

1. Break down the steps/components of deliberate practice.
2. Examine the difference/relationship between deliberate practice and flow (a high-performance state coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
3. Explain how you can increase your rate of learning significantly.

• Purpose is “the intention to contribute to the well-being of others”.
• Both gritty and non-gritty people seek short-term pleasures, but gritty people are drastically more likely to also seek to contribute to others.
• They usually spend years developing their skills and interest, before they discover their purpose later in life. 

Hope is “the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future”. It helps us to persevere; it gives us the strength to get up each time we fall and to keep going.