Lesson: Grit Means to Have Courage and Show Strength of Your Character
Angela Duckworth is an expert on ‘grit’, which is supposed to be an essential ingredient for success. As she explains it, grit is sustained persistence that is developed with the time for long-term achievement, with no regard for recognition or reward on the way. It includes resilience, self-control, and ambition that might take days, months, or years but it takes you towards the pursuit of goals.
Angela Duckworth spent years of research and studies to analyze the effects of grit on the performances of people in school, sports, business, and personal life. Most of the schools of psychology say that childhood is the golden period to bring changes in a person. Many suggest that there is very little growth after what is learned in childhood. But, Angela’s research proposed otherwise.
It was observed that people change throughout life and they even get more persistent with time. Some people don’t change at all, while some make dramatic changes in their personalities. But, people do change over time, and grit is also developed like this.
Experiencing grit can make you look at the long-term goals of your life rather than just being stuck to the small achievements. You just need to be persistent with your learning and effort. Here are a few things that develop grit:
• Courage
Courage can’t be measured but it is directly linked to the level of grit you have. Courage is all about accepting, managing your failures and, moving forward. Those who have grit, won’t sit and cry over what they have lost. But, they amend their mistakes and move towards betterment.
• Conscientiousness
Out of five big personality traits; openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neurotic, and agreeableness, conscientiousness is the most related one to grit. It is about being careful and painstaking. The person who tries to commit to the task at hand rather than waiting for the big treasure to unfold, is successful.
• Resilience
When you start a new journey, you stumble upon many barriers on the way, but would it do you any good if you give up? Resilience enhances your grit as it makes you more confident, creative, and optimist after you have fallen. You can maintain the same pace and move towards the purpose regardless of the surprises you meet.
• Excellence
While most people are perfectionists, they want to be what people would like them to be. But, in comparison to this, the people who practice excellence are the grittier ones. It is an attitude to do every task with virtue and greatness. Whereas, perfection is just about fulfilling the perception of other people about you.
If you want to succeed in your life, focus on your abilities, and stay persistent in anything that you are doing. When you are stuck to your cause, and learning consistently every day, you get to make marvelous achievements. Grit is the quality that you already endure in yourself, you just have to be patient and practice it out.
A person with true grit has passion and perseverance. When you identify a goal, never give up and continue to Fight ON!
Angela Duckworth spent years of research and studies to analyze the effects of grit on the performances of people in school, sports, business, and personal life. Most of the schools of psychology say that childhood is the golden period to bring changes in a person. Many suggest that there is very little growth after what is learned in childhood. But, Angela’s research proposed otherwise.
It was observed that people change throughout life and they even get more persistent with time. Some people don’t change at all, while some make dramatic changes in their personalities. But, people do change over time, and grit is also developed like this.
Experiencing grit can make you look at the long-term goals of your life rather than just being stuck to the small achievements. You just need to be persistent with your learning and effort. Here are a few things that develop grit:
• Courage
Courage can’t be measured but it is directly linked to the level of grit you have. Courage is all about accepting, managing your failures and, moving forward. Those who have grit, won’t sit and cry over what they have lost. But, they amend their mistakes and move towards betterment.
• Conscientiousness
Out of five big personality traits; openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neurotic, and agreeableness, conscientiousness is the most related one to grit. It is about being careful and painstaking. The person who tries to commit to the task at hand rather than waiting for the big treasure to unfold, is successful.
• Resilience
When you start a new journey, you stumble upon many barriers on the way, but would it do you any good if you give up? Resilience enhances your grit as it makes you more confident, creative, and optimist after you have fallen. You can maintain the same pace and move towards the purpose regardless of the surprises you meet.
• Excellence
While most people are perfectionists, they want to be what people would like them to be. But, in comparison to this, the people who practice excellence are the grittier ones. It is an attitude to do every task with virtue and greatness. Whereas, perfection is just about fulfilling the perception of other people about you.
If you want to succeed in your life, focus on your abilities, and stay persistent in anything that you are doing. When you are stuck to your cause, and learning consistently every day, you get to make marvelous achievements. Grit is the quality that you already endure in yourself, you just have to be patient and practice it out.
A person with true grit has passion and perseverance. When you identify a goal, never give up and continue to Fight ON!