Step 1: Define what grit or mental toughness means for you.

1. Grit is the perseverance and passion to achieve long–term goals.
2. Sometimes you will hear grit referred to as mental toughness.
3. Angela Duckworth, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that gri...

Mentally tough leaders are more consistent than their peers. They have a clear goal that they work towards each day.

Mentally tough people don’t have to be more courageous, more talented, or more intelligent — just more consistent.

• Grit comes down to your habits.
• It’s about doing the things you know you’re supposed to do on a more consi...

Grit isn’t about getting an incredible dose of inspiration or courage.

It’s about building the daily habits that allow you to stick to a schedule and overcome challenges and distractions over and over and over again.

1. West Point cadets who scored highest on the Grit Test were 60% more likely to succeed than their peers.
2. Ivy League undergraduate students who had more grit also had higher GPAs than their peers — even though they had lower SAT scores and weren’t as “smart.”
3. When comparing two...

Mental toughness is like a muscle. It needs to be worked to grow and develop.

• Choose to do the tenth rep when it would be easier to just do nine.
• Choose to create when it would be easier to consume.
• Choose to ask the extra question when it would be easi...

Mentally tough athletes are more consistent than others. They don’t miss workouts. They don’t miss assignments. They always have their teammates...