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What Is Grit?
- Grit is the combination of passion (a deep, enduring knowledge of what you want) and perseverance (hard work and resilience).
- It’s about moving in a direction with consistency and endurance, like having a clear inner compass that guides all your decisions and actions.
- Grit = Passion + Perseverance
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- The Psychology of Achievement: Skill requires talent and effort, and Achievement requires skill and effort.
- Grit and Goal Structures: Have a top-level goal (or “ultimate concern”).
- The Power of Passion and Practice: Embrace long-term deliberate practice...
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Discovering your Interests:
• 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.
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Why Grit Is Important?
- 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
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Developing Grit:
- 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: ...
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DEVELOPING GRIT FROM INSIDE-OUT:
• 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.
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Deepening Through Practice:
- Break down the steps/components of deliberate practice.
- Examine the difference/relationship between deliberate practice and flow (a high-performance state coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
- Explain how you can in...
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Developing a Sense of Purpose:
- 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 us...
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Nurturing Hope:
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.
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What is Grit?
- Grit is the perseverance and passion to achieve long–term goals.
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Characteristics of GRIT
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