From the library
Grit
Angela Duckworth, 2016
In one paragraph
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.”
Where this sits in the operating system
Mental Models & Decision Frameworks
Purpose & Meaning
Compound Leverage
Purpose & Meaning
Key insights
Grit is passion and perseverance for long-term goals, and the passion half means consistency of direction rather than intensity of feeling.
Effort counts twice: it builds skill and then it converts skill into achievement.
The predictive claims have weakened considerably under replication. Duckworth is more careful about this than her popularisers.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Short‑term chasing
Busy without growth
Isolation
Meaning drift
All‑or‑nothing
The same idea, argued differently
David Brooks
Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack
Thomas J. Stanley
James Clear
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Angela Duckworth
- Published
- 2016
- Category
- Self-Help
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