“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell and got back up again”-this is according to Nelson Mandela. This is a grit-an attitude that makes everybody persevere no matter what situation they are in, what matters most is their long-term goals, and realizing them is a great achievement. I’ve been through lots of ups and downs. But with these lowest points of my life, I never gave up. I knew that somewhere along...
1 Page
405 Words
I have no grit with my studies these weeks. If you don’t have strong self-control, it is a very challenging thing to choose to have online courses during the summer. I was always thinking about the holidays and rest and didn’t study hard. Rest took up a lot of my time every day, which caused me not to spend much time on my studies. Many unnecessary trifles always attract my attention and prevent me from studying wholeheartedly. Sometimes it takes...
3 Pages
1280 Words
Introduction A recurrent concern amongst institutions of higher learning is attracting and selecting the best and brightest students. No two learners are the same and they often differ across an array of factors including, age, gender, personality traits, family backgrounds (Hakimi, Hejazi and Lavasani, 2011), intelligence, socioeconomic status (Hakimi, Hejazi and Lavasani, 2011), pre–university education and training. Consequently, there exists no fixed approach for determining the characteristics of a good student. While previous studies that attempted to determine predictors of...
6 Pages
2554 Words
INTRODUCTION The non-cognitive trait cited as grit have been receiving widespread attention as a predictor of success until now. When grit is introduced on schools as a subject, the students will score higher marks obviously. If schools are to take the measures to teach grit, what would be the core aim they tend to achieve? Is grit a character that can be taught in schools effectively? Will teaching grit in schools increase student’s grit level significantly? The questions about teaching...
2 Pages
710 Words
Abstract Grit refers to the zeal that an individual has to pursue his long-term goals even in the face of obstacles. Persistence towards achievement of the goal is the key to grit. The study is an attempt to develop better understanding of the nature of grit and its correlates in young adults by elaborating on the experiencing of various everyday behaviors shown by young adults. Factors such as optimism, self-efficacy and resilience are expected to correlate positively to grit whereas...
7 Pages
3086 Words
Get a unique paper that meets your instructions
800+ verified writersÂ
can handle your paper.
Place order
One problem our society lives with is the rigid mindset we have, believing that achievement lays in the power of talent or chance and we end up neglecting the real reason why people achieve success: long-term perseverance and passion. GRIT by Angela Duckworth is a book which talks about these principles beside some others like persistence, taking action after failure or hardworking, which she called more simply: GRIT. The book explains where grit comes from, how it can be developed...
5 Pages
2466 Words
This book was recommended to me by a Fund Manager of a VC fund that I had done due-diligence for, called Grit Lab VC. One of the 2 Fund managers had been working in the VC field for more than 25 years and has worked with some companies that were or are now titans in the industry, such as Nokia and Sun Microsystems. This Manager told me that times and times again, the thing that she has recognised as having...
3 Pages
1256 Words
What does your grit score mean? The Grit Scale measures an individual's ability to sustain focus and interest while working toward long-term goals. We develop experience through hard work, which allows us to discover numerous new things that permit us to expand our minds and learn from them. This experience has taught us how to think critically to solve a difficult challenge and succeed. We can all work hard for a better future if we have the determination to persist...
1 Page
576 Words
