Grit Angela Duckworth

Grit : cran, courage, endurance

• What do you mean by talent? In the most generic sense talent is the sum of a person's ability - his or her intrinsic skills, knowledge, experience, intelligence, judgment, attitude, character and drive. It also includes his or her ability to learn and grow.
• McKinsey: to solve whatever problems they threw our way.
• We had the advantage of an outsider's perpective untainted by insider politics.
• We had a method for solving business problems: hypothesis and data driven.
• As much as talent counts, efforts counts twice.
• If we think of genius something magical, we are not obliged to compare ourselves and find ourselves lacking: here there is no need to compete.
• I came to appreciate that in doing something over and over again, something that was never natural becomes almost second nature.
• In the marathon of life, efforts counts tremendously.
• A subject is willing to push himself or has a tendency to quit before the punishment becomes too severe.
• Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.
• Skills is only developed by hours and hours of beating on your craft.
• Skills is not the same thing as achievement.
• With effort, talent becomes skills and at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.
• Grit has two components: passion and perseverance.
• Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.
• It was difficult, and discouraging, and demoralising, and scary, and all the rest. But eventually, I got here. I got exactly where I wanted to be.
• Being punctual shows respect for the people with whom you work.
• Grit is about holding the same top level goal for a very long time.
• Time and energy are limited: what not to do.
• To what extent do these goals serve a common purpose?
• Improvise, adapt, overcome.
• Try, try again, then try something different.
• Effort counts twice.
• Because in cartooning, as in life, nine out of ten things never work out.
• Degree of strength of will or perseverance. Quiet determination to stick to a course once decided upon.
• Tendency not to abandon tasks in the face of obstacles. Perseverance, tenacity, doggedness.
• It's progress just clarifying your goals, and the extent to which they are-or aren't - aligned toward a single passion of supreme importance. It's also progress to better understand how well you're currently able to persevere in the face of life's rejection slips.
• We change when we need to. Necessity is the mother of adaptation.
• First comes interest then comes the capacity to practice by daily discipline and then hope.
• Whatever it takes, I want to improve.
• It is therefore imperative that you identify your work as both personally interesting and at the same time, integrally connected to the well-being of others.
• My work is important - both to me and others.
• Learn to keep going even when things are difficult, even when we have doubts.
• A little guidance can be a tremendous help.
• The four psychological assets of interest, practice, purpose and hope are not You have or you don't have commodities. You can learn to discover, develop, and deepen your interests.

INTEREST

• My advice for you is, figure out what you enjoy most in life, and then try's to do it full time. Life is short. Follow your passion.
• Worldwide, only 13% of adults call themselves "engaged" at work.
• Grit paragons spent years exploring several different interests. Chances are they took quite some time figuring out exactly what they wanted to do with their lives.
• 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.
• Positive feedback makes us fell happy, competent and secure.
• Before hard work comes play.
• Even the most accomplished of experts start out as unserious beginners.
• The learning at the beginning of this stage was much like a game.
• At the start of an endeavor, we need encouragement and freedom to figure out what we enjoy. We need small wins. We need applause.
• It's not important that I understand everything. It's important that I listen.
• The directive to follow your passion is not bad advice.

PRACTICE

• Quality of time but also better time on task.
• Continuous improvement.
• Improve specific weaknesses. They intentionally seek out challenges they can't meet yet.
• Interestingly, many choose to do so while nobody's is watching.
• Experts are more interested in what they did wrong.
• They are no gains without pains.
• You're in "problem solving mode"
• You're getting feedback and a lot of feedback is about what you're doing wrong, and you're using that feedback to make adjustments and try again.
• Deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.
• Scientific jargon. Too many slides. And not enough clear, understandable examples. Tell a story with zero suspense.
• A clearly defined stretch goal.
• Full concentration and effort.
• Immediate and informative feedback.
• Repetition with reflection and refinement.
• Focus on your weaknesses and concentrate one hundred percent.
• When you have a habit of practicing at the same time and in the same place every day, you hardly have to think about getting started. You just do. Daily rituals.

PURPOSE

• Interest is one source of passion. Purpose, the intention to contribute to the well-being of others, is another. The mature passions of gritty people depend on both.
• Most people first become attracted to things they enjoy and later appreciate how these personal interests might also benefit others.
• Their efforts pay dividend to other people.
• Purpose means "the intention to contribute to the well-being of others".
• "Pleasure principle".
• My work makes the world a better place.
• How you see your work is more important than your job title.
• A child's connection with a teacher can be life-changing for both.
• Use psychological science to help kids thrive
• It's about building something. It's about our clients and solving their problems.
• I personally can make a difference.
• Reflecting on purpose.
• The notion that whatever your occupation, you can maneuver within your job description, adding, delegating, and customizing what you do to match your interests and values.
• Imagine yourself fifteen years from now. What do you think will be most important to you then?

HOPE

• Old Japanese saying: Fall seven, rise eight.
• As with any other skill, we can practice interpreting what happens to us and responding as an optimist would. Cognitive behavioral therapy is now a widely practiced psychotherapeutic treatment for depression, and has proven longer lasting in its effects than antidepressant medication.
• Scientific evidence that happiness wasn't just the consequence of performing well at work, it might also be an important cause.
• Praising effort and learning over "natural talent".
• Language is one way to cultivate hope. But modeling a growth mindset, demonstrating by our actions that we truly believe people can learn to learn, may be even more important.
• The reality is that most people have an inner fixed-mindset pessimist in them right along their inner growth-mindset optimist.
• A good first step is to watch for mismatches between our words and actions.
• All that practice paid off.
• The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them. You need to step back, analyze them, and learn from them. But you also need to stay optimistic.
• Just keep working hard and learning, and it will all work out.
• What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
• The belief that what happens in life is largely under your control.
• When does struggle lead to hope, and when does struggle lead to hopelessness?
• Update your beliefs about intelligence and talent.
• Intelligence, or any other talent, can improve with effort.
• The brain changes itself when you struggle to master a new challenge.
• Practice optimistic self-talk.
• Preventative dose of cognitive behavioral therapy.
• Ask for a helping hand.
• Setbacks don't discourage me for long. I get back on my feet.

PARENTING FOR GRIT

• Persistence eventually delivers rewards.
• Finish what you begin.
• Once you commit, you discipline yourself to do it.
• It was important to be with the kids.
• Go and follow your dreams.
• I am giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.
• The powerful motivating effect that a simple message can have.
• If I try I have a chance. If I never try, then I have no chance at all.
• Ecosystem of support.
• He's taught me that nothing is impossible and no goal is beyond reach.
• Stay positive.

THE PLAYING FIELDS OF GRIT

• Challenge and intrinsic motivation.
• Get to the finish line.
• Persistence and effectiveness.
• To nudge to try and try again.
• Energy, drive and commitment- all that grit - that was developed through athletics can almost always be transferred to something else.
• A hard thing is something that requires daily deliberate practice.

A CULTURE OF GRIT

• Qualitative improvement in skill, not just "more hours".
• The real way to become a great swimmer is to join a great team.
• The population of Finland its just over five millions. There are fewer Finns in the world than New Yorkers.
• Grit specifies having a passion to accomplish a particular top-level goal and the perseverance to follow through.
• Thinking of yourself as someone who is able to overcome tremendous adversity.
• Relentless communication: it's what you say and how you say it.
• Have a fierce resolve in everything you do.
• Demonstrate determination, resiliency and tenacity.
• Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses.
• Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better, not reasons to quit.
• Culture building.
• Basically, we'll try anything, and if it works, we'll keep doing it.
• Mental toughness to handle the pain that most people can't.
• For me language is everything.
• If you want to create a great culture, you have to have a collection of core values that everyone lives.
• Half the team's core values are about teamwork. Half are about grit.
• We don't whine.
• The origin of great leadership begins with the respect of the commander for his subordinates.
• The power of passion and perseverance.
• Once you have done the work to create the clear vision, it is the discipline and effort to maintain that vision that can make it all come true.
• Compete: quite literally, it means strive together.
• Finishing strong means consistently focusing and doing your absolute best at every moment, from start to finish.
• Marathon of life: passion and perseverance for long-term goals.