1. The Psychology of Achievement: Skill requires talent and effort, and Achievement requires skill and effort.
2. Grit and Goal Structures: Have a top-level goal (or “ultimate concern”).
3. The Power of Passion and Practice: Embrace long-term deliberate practice...

• 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 in...

• 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

• 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: ...

• 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

• 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...