What if doing well in school and in life depends on much more then our ability to learn quickly and easily. This story is about the scientific study of adults and kids in all kinds of super challenging settings. The reason of this study is to answer simple questions.
“Who is considered Successful here and Why?”.
“Which cadet is going to complete the military training.”
“Which member of the sales team will make the most sales”.
“Which student will dropout from the school.”
“Which student is going to graduate.”
Researchers spend long period of time and effort to answer these questions by studying variety of groups of people in (military, sales, marketing and schools etc.). One characteristic emerged as significant predictor of success.
“it is not social intelligence.”
“it is not good looks.”
“it is not IQ.”
and “it is not physical health.”
Research findings suggested that the predictor of success is the “Grit” that someone has. Grit is passion and perseverance for very Long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day-in day-out, not just for the week, not just for months, but for years. And working really hard to make that future a reality.
How do I build Grit? Best idea to built Grit is “Growth Mindset” presented by Carol Dweck. And it is the believe that the ability to learn is not fixed. It can change with effort. when we read and learn about brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, we are much more likely to persevere when we fail. Because we don't believe that failure is a permanent condition. so growth mindset is great idea to built grit but we need more we need to take our best ideas and our strongest intuitions and we need to test them we need to measure whether we are successful and we have to be willing to fail to be wrong and to start over again with lessons learned.
