10 Ways To Develop Grit
Many factors go into success: hard work, determination, and a strong work ethic will take a person far, but it takes grit to truly achieve success. Grit is most aptly described as the possession of a strong drive and passion for one’s long term goals. Grit involves more than just working hard. It requires drive, stamina and passion for one’s work. Professor of psychology, Angela Duckworth, first discovered the importance of grit when observing her seventh graders. She noticed that the students who excelled shared certain characteristics, such as passion and drive. Duckworth quit
her job, and began studying the character traits of successful individuals across industries. While her research is still ongoing, she observed grit in the majority of those individuals, and was able to link it to their rise to the top.
Other individuals have added to this field of study, too, with Stanford’s Catharine Cox finding that grit is an even better indicator of success than intelligence. Knowledge, they found, can only get a person so far. It’s the passion and the drive to do something with that knowledge that lead to success. People who are gritty don’t let repeated failures stand in the way of their passion. Instead, they learn from their mistakes and continuously improve throughout their lives.
The good news is grit can be acquired. Through her research, Duckworth was able to prove that grit isn’t necessarily an intrinsic quality; it is a skill that can be learned by just about anyone. Here are ten ways to develop grit.
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