<ul><li> Grit is the combination of passion (a deep, enduring knowledge of what you want) and perseverance (hard work and resilience).</li><li> It’s about moving in a direction with consistency and endurance, like having a clear inner compass that guides all your decisions and actions.</li><li>Grit = Passion + Perseverance</li></ul>

What Is Grit?

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

Why Grit Is Important?

• 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.

Discovering your Interests:

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

Deepening Through Practice:

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

Developing a Sense of Purpose:

<ul><li>INTEREST: Loving what you do.</li><li>PRACTICE: Focusing on improvement no matter what.</li><li>PURPOSE: Believing strongly that your work matters to yourself and to others.</li><li>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.</li></ul>

Developing Grit:

• 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.

DEVELOPING GRIT FROM INSIDE-OUT:

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.

Nurturing Hope:

<ol><li> The Psychology of Achievement: Skill requires talent and effort, and Achievement requires skill and effort.</li><li>Grit and Goal Structures: Have a top-level goal (or “ultimate concern”).</li><li>The Power of Passion and Practice: Embrace long-term deliberate practice, and Work on weaknesses</li><li>The Guiding Light of Purpose and Hope: Be an optimistic self-improver.</li><li> Creating Grit from the Outside In: Grit can be cultivated in our external environment, via parents and role models, extra-curricular activities, and teams and cultures.</li></ol>

Short Summary:

"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments. Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not "genius" but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own "character lab" and set out to test her theory. Here, she takes readers into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers--from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that--not talent or luck--makes all the difference"--

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In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Duckworth, now a celebrated researcher and professor, describes her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not “genius” but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes readers into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. Among Grit’s most valuable insights: *Why any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal *How grit can be learned, regardless of I.Q. or circumstances *How lifelong interest is triggered *How much of optimal practice is suffering and how much ecstasy *Which is better for your child—a warm embrace or high standards *The magic of the Hard Thing Rule Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference.

Angela Duckworth is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Angela Duckworth has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Angela Duckworth's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.