Angela Duckworth: Book Report

Duckworth explains people with grit are those who confront failure and don’t give up easily. She did research on the U.S Army to determine their grit. She realize, if the soldiers had a though of mind of grit they showed good results in their military performance on summer camp. Also, there was a fascinating research she had with taxi drivers relating to grit. Commonly, one would think that taxi drivers make more money in a rainy day. But what she found out was that taxi drivers work less hours in rainy days because they would make the sufficient money they needed for the day. In similarity, she compare this research to talent and grit. One with talent will spent less time on something so they stop immediately once they have proficient. In the other hand, someone with grit will spend longer time and get more out of it.

Grit, what is this? Is it success, is it failure, or is it talent? As Angela Duckworth said “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day-in and day-out. Not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years. And working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.” Grit is a combination of strength, persistence, focus, and dedication that helps a person to maintain the optimism and discipline needed to persevere in their goals even if they are head to head with failure. Grit does not depend on talent, IQ, or success. Grit is the ability to fail and learn from your mistake, in order to come back next

Angela Duckworth is a psychologist, as well as, a popular science author, who describes herself as being obsessed with grit (Denby 1). She eventually determined that grit is a solitary

Throughout Grit, Angela Duckworth argues that grit is the single most important factor in determining success of an individual. She splits the argument into three parts: the concept of grit and why it matters, the proper use and understanding of the goal hierarchy, and how an individual can develop grit. Duckworth’s argument is important because it replaces the traditional viewpoint of success being determined by talent to one which sees success as a result of passion and perseverance.

On the last day of tryouts, the coaches made cuts for the teams. They called each one of us separately to meet. The head coach started off by saying that I was a good player and that I had a lot of potential. Then, the praise quickly dropped off.

In one of the most watched Ted talk videos, “The Key To Success- Grit,” recorded in May 9 2013, the speaker Angela Lee Duckworth explains how the strongest performers in their fields were typically not the ones with the highest IQ’s, but the ones with the most amount of Grit. What is that? Angela defines Grit to be the passion and perseverance for a long-term goal and to go through with it with no quitting. She then goes on and talks about the studies and their results relating to pure Grit being the answer. Although her her speech is moving and brings hope to those who don’t think they can do much with a low IQ, her reasoning seems to not carry enough evidence.

Recently, I have observed the Ted video on Angela Duckworth and read the article “Angela Duckworth on Passion, Grit and Success,” by Julie Scelfo. These two sources are non-fiction stories. Angela Duckworth, an optimistic seventh grade math teacher, noticed a trend regarding her student’s behaviour. For instance, some of the children who are smart were not striving. Also, some students were taking a longer time to understand the material that is presented to them in class. This led to the decision for Angela to quit teaching and to go to college and become a psychologist. Angela soon came up with an answer to the questions of why people are not interested in certain things, and how to become successful in life. Based on her studies, Angela came up with Grit. Grit is passion and perseverance for long term goals. Grit is measured by using the “Grit scale.” The “gritter” you are, the higher the chances of you of becoming more successful in life.

The transition from high school to college will be very difficult, although, Angela Duckworth's' experiment showed that grit can help overcome that challenge. Failure contributes to grit by making us want to try again. Whenever I fail a test I try harder to make sure that I regain the points I missed on the test. If I can retake a test I do, like earlier this semester in my chemistry class I failed a test and went to TAILS a retook it. On the grit test Angela Duckworth created, I got the score of 3.9. To succeed, character is more important than intellect itself. "As much as talent counts, effort count twice." is a quote by Angela Duckworth that explains that character is more important. A strong character is more beneficial than intellect

What Angela Duckworth has found is that grit contributes to success academically as well as in

Every player on my team was capable of playing great, but it didn’t always turn out that way. Our coach absolutely hated when we missed a layup so that is what we practiced to begin with. At first we missed a couple, but then we got in a groove and didn’t miss at all. It looked like we were going to have a good game, until I saw the other team. Every kid was tall, except for the point guard. Our team did not have much height, most of us were a little bit above five feet. As warm-ups came to an end, we took the floor. Coach put the five tallest kids out there (including me) in hope that we would stop some of their aggressive drives to the basket. We shook hands, and the game started, there were twenty minute halves for the game. In the middle of the first half, we were down big time 21-6. We needed to get something going, so my coach yelled, “TIME-OUT,” and the referee granted him with a time-out. “That is pathetic,” he exclaimed. “You guys need to get something going right now, or else it could be too late, to come

In the article ,The Key to Success, it says that no matter how talented you are or how high your IQ is, grit is the key to success. Grit and perseverance are the two

I am intrigued by Angela Duckworth’s ideology about GRIT and the notion of the growth mindset. I strongly agree with her belief that anyone can be successful if they work hard with passion and perseverance. Practice and a strong work ethic can always make a person better. Furthermore, I view it as an investment of your time and effort that you put aside for yourself to make your dreams a reality. I am a firm believer that everyone has the ability to achieve success if you put your mind and your heart to it. With passion, motivation and determination, you can always improve your situation and get further than you were before. You can always progress.

It turns out that intelligence or IQ scores are not the best indicators of a person's future success. According to Angela Lee Duckworth, a University of Pennsylvania assistant professor of psychology, “grit” is the single greatest factor in everyone's journey to be successful. However, just telling people that grit is important doesn't really help them. The concept of grit is one that needs to be understood comprehensively in order to aid an individual. Angela Duckworth put grit in her own words by describing it as “passion and perseverance for long-term goals”. Being gritty, according to Duckworth, is the ability to persevere. For a person to be ‘gritty” they have to be able to not be put down by failure, but instead treat their failure as

Have you ever deeply thought about why people become successful? It may be surprising that intelligence is not the key component to achieving something; neither popularity nor social skills. It’s grit, the ability to preserve through obstacles to reach a long-term goal that means a lot to oneself. According to Angela Duckworth from the TEDTalk, “The key to success? Grit,” this characteristic is the most important when working toward a long-standing goal. It demonstrates the overcoming of difficulty and working through it. Grit can be described as a passionate resilience to reach an objective in the far future. It is about having stamina in your life that keeps you going and working on forthcoming hopes and dreams. In a nutshell, grit is the

2 years ago I played football for the MOT Cowboys, I had just turned thirteen. Football season had just started and there were many teenagers my size and smaller than me trying out for the team,the tryouts was about a week long, a week later the teams had decided who they wanted and I was picked along with a ton of other talented kids at football. August 4th, the first day of conditioning, I’m thinking that conditioning would be a piece of cake but surely I was mistaken. The first day I had ran like I have never ran before, after the first practice I was thinking and said “ What did I get myself into”. The first week I was skeptical about even wanting to play football, my brother played football to and he jokingly said to me, “ You look like