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A Summary and Review of Grit by Angela Duckworth
My Takeaways and Opinion on Grit
Grit by Angela Duckworth was a fantastic read and I’m excited to share a summary and review of it with you.
Grit is broken down into three parts:
- What Grit Is and Why It Matters
- Growing Grit from the Inside Out
- Growing Grit from the Outside In
Within these three parts, there are thirteen chapters in total that I will dive into in more detail below.
Part 1: What Grit Is and Why It Matters
Chapter 1: Showing Up
In any field, the most successful people are lucky and talented. High achievers keep going after failures, stick things out, are constantly driven to improve, and are “paragons of perseverance.”
In research on high achievers, it’s been found that, for high achievers, there wasn’t a realistic expectation of ever catching up to their ambitions. In their own eyes, high achievers were never good enough. They were the opposite of complacent and were satisfied with being unsatisfied. The highest achievers had a passion for enduring and wouldn’t think of giving up.
