Angela Duckworth’s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, is a book that gives a detailed description of what grit and perseverance are and how they can be developed. The book explains why effort means more than talent when it comes to achieving long-term goals, how to cultivate grit through practice. Duckworth found grit to be a stronger predictor of high-achievement than intelligence, talent and other personality traits. The book talks about how to strike a balance between pain and pleasure during practice, and how to help your dearest people to build grit and reach long-term goals.
#Grit
Grit is the combination of passion (a deep, enduring knowledge of what you want) and perseverance (hard work and resilience). It’s about moving in a direction with consistency and endurance, like having a clear inner compass that guides all your decisions and actions.
# Potential
Our Potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another. Your potential will remain unutilized if you do not take efforts.
# Talent Distraction
We often get distracted by Talent. By shining our spotlight on talent, we risk leaving everything else in the shadows. We inadvertently send the message that these other factors – including grit – don’t matter as much as they really do. If we overemphasize talent, we underemphasize everything else.
# Talent- Skill- Achievement Equation
Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them. Effort builds skill. At the very same time, effort makes skill productive.
Talent × Effort = Skill
Skill × Effort = Achievement
# Deliberate Practice
Deliberate Practice is about hard work, stretching your goal and doing it all over again to finally master it.
How to get the most out of deliberate practice:
– First, know the science.
– Second, make it a habit.
– And third, change the way you experience it.
#Passion and Interests
Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening. Interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. It thrives when there is a crew of encouraging supporters.
#Growth Mindset
A growth mindset leads to optimistic ways of explaining adversity, and that, in turn, leads to perseverance and seeking out new challenges that will ultimately make you even stronger.
#Mindset
Mindsets have been shown to make difference in all the same life domains as optimism. If you’ve a growth mindset, you’re more likely to do well in school, enjoy better emotional and physical health, and have stronger, more positive social relationships with other people.
# Care about others
You don’t need to be a parent to make a difference in someone’s life. If you just care about them and get to know, what’s going on, you can make an impact. Try to understand what’s going on in their life and help them through that. That makes the huge difference.
# Hard Thing Rule for Family
First is that everyone in the family has to do a hard thing i.e. something that requires daily deliberate practice.
Second, you can quit. But you can’t quit on a bad day.
Finally, you get to pick your hard thing.
# Culture
The magic of culture is that one person’s grit can provide a model for others. If each person’s grit enhances grit in others, then, over time, you might expect what social scientist Jim Flynn calls a “social multiplier” effect.
# Four Psychological Assets of Grit Paragons
Interest: loving what you do
Practice: focusing on improvement no matter what
Purpose: believing strongly that your work matters to yourself and to others. This usually happens only after years of cultivating your interest and honing your abilities from practice
Hope: believing that you can work things out and overcome your challenges. 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.
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Book contains very important points of life . Knowledgeable book .
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