Angela Duckworth: What Does Grit Mean?

There are a lot of different ways people could think of grit. My concept of grit would be having the passion and perseverance to accomplish something. My goal is to one day be a travel nurse. There are alot things that come with nursing, becoming a travel nurse will be challenging but with courage, follow through and excellence rather than perfection you can achieve that goal.

I demonstrated grit when I was at a basketball game in Prairie Machine. It was really dumb because we were in a different state and the refs favored the team we were playing against so it made it tough to play and try and beat the team. But our team would not give up even though we were so tired with sweat everywhere on our jerseys from running back and forth, and our legs hurting with pain from running so much. We knew if we even had a chance of winning we had to play as a team and had to play our hardest to try and win the game. The game was crazy, we were winning barely, the score 44-42 but when it came down to the last 1:30 that’s of course, when the other team would just elbow us and not get a foul. Of course they won the game, but we

Now, true grit is something you don’t see everyday. I actually happen to know someone very well who has shown grit recently… The person I know better than anyone I’ve ever met… Myself! Actually, I showed grit at the latest soccer game, on the eve of August 27. We had a soccer game the day earlier that closely followed a 7:02 mile. Not to mention Band, which has given me, probably the weakest member of it, the heaviest drums. And if that wasn’t enough, Endurance tests was our entire P.E.. So, by the end of the day, you would suppose that my legs would be killing me… and they were! I felt as though I pulled something, which I probably did. My legs did carry me as I followed the ball across the field, although I felt like a burning spike was

Now, true grit is something you don’t see everyday. I actually happen to know someone very well who has shown grit recently… The person I know better than anyone I’ve ever met… Myself! Actually, I showed grit at the latest soccer game, on the eve of August 27. We had a soccer game the day earlier that closely followed a 7:02 mile. Not to mention Band, which has given me, probably the weakest member of band, the heaviest drums. And if that wasn’t enough, Endurance tests were our entire P.E.. So, by the end of the day, you would suppose that my legs would be killing me… and they were! I felt as though I pulled something, which I probably did. My legs did carry me as I followed the ball across the field, although I felt like a burning spike

Now, true grit is something you don’t see everyday. I actually happen to know someone quite well who has shown grit recently… Myself! Actually, I showed grit at the latest soccer game, on the eve of August 27. The previous soccer game that quickly followed my mile run was tiring enough.. And Band, don’t even get me started on band! They gave me, the shrimp of the band, the Quads... the large 35 pound mess of drums. And if that wasn’t enough, our recent workouts in PE were all difficult and lasting! So, by the end of the day, my knees felt weak. Literally and figuratively! Then the whistle blew, signalling the start of the soccer game. Oh, I dreaded it. I ran as fast as the stilts I call my legs could carry me. My legs did carry me as I

Grit. It has several meanings. It can mean dirty or strength and passion. Do I have Grit? Everyone has grit in their own ways. So, my answer is yes. I mean, I guess, I have or have had grit at some point in time. So, it goes somewhat like this. Last school year, towards the middle of it. My older brother and I kept arguing a lot almost everyday. All of these fights were about stupid things at least I think they were. One day my older brother that I still to this day love and care for. We got in yet another argument, this one was worse than usual. He said some harsh words to me. He and my younger sister both laughed about it after he said those three words. I didn’t laugh, I quickly walked away, shut my door and locked it. A

One of the people I know with grit is my cousin Brent. Brent was highly recruited after his senior season of football. Excited to play college football he committed to Upper Iowa in the spring the coaches told him that there was a good chance he could be their starter. Until they got a transfer from California and the transfer took the starting job from Brent as soon as he walked on campus. I can't even imagine how that felt, you work so hard just to become a back-up. Immediately Brent got his starting job back after the first string quarterback had a gruesome knee injury. He showed grit this year when at an Upper Iowa football game he got hit in the knee and got carted off the field. A quarter later he was back on the sidelines

Grit is when someone perseveres and never stops trying. This occurs when a person has the guts to do something. A good example of grit that I have experienced was at six or seven. During one of the days in my family’s vacation, we decided to hike a dune called Sleeping Bear Dune. The dune is called that because of all the big hills that resemble a bear lying down on his front side, sleeping. The temperature outside was around 90 degrees Fahrenheit. As I looked at the dune for the first time, I noted it as being moderately enjoyable. We originally deliberated it being fine, but as soon as we started up the dune, the whole family wanted to stop. Sleeping bear dune was so steep, so mainly I was getting pushed to the wall to stop about every five

Grit and perseverance benefit a person in many aspects such as completing difficult tasks helps to develop a positive mindset and succeeding in colleges or the workforce. After all, talent isn’t everything, hard work and perseverance are also needed to reach challenging goals.

Do I have grit? For me this was a hard question. Grit is working through something even in the hard times and working hard to accomplish it. Sometimes in my life when I looked back and even today I would say yes but then there are times that I would say no.

Grit is apart of many people they are born with it and learned by your environment or parents. For example, one of duckworth's study involved cadets at west point and she stats "Cadets who scored a standard deviation higher than average on the Grit–Scale were 99% more likely to complete summer training,"As a result this shows how cadets need to be to complete the summer training. Showing that the cadets need to be higher than average on the grit scale to complete the training. Another example of the camp is when she states, “This is a technical point, but to simplify, it's the odds of making it through that improved by 99 percent. Most lay people, though, would interpret "99% more likely" as meaning that your chances of getting through bounced,

I first heard the concept of grit from Angela Duckworth’s Ted Talk: “Grit: the power of passion and perseverance”. At the time I thought it was interesting but didn’t pay much attention to it. Then I read her book of the same name, and I’ll admit, at first I took everything personal because I’m the smart kid she’s talking about.

In life, people will experience stressors which will make life difficult, and in order to persevere, one must have grit. Grit is defined as the ability to persevere through a difficult or challenging situation. Throughout my life, there has been times where it feels like all of the walls are collapsing in at the same time. Most of my stress has been self inflicted through my schooling. My latest stressor was a few weeks ago when I was the stress studying for my Advanced Placement (AP) tests, but I am still here today. Through each experience I muster up enough grit to push through. By the next time new stress hits, it makes the the last experience seem not that bad, but that is when I learn to get grab some more grit and push through once more.

One non-cognitive traits that has recently gotten a lot of attention from educators and psychologists and recognized as important predictor of success and performance is a personality variable referred to as grit (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007; Duckworth & Quinn, 2009. Duckworth et al. (2009: 541) define grit as “passion and perseverance to accomplish long-term goals despite obstacles and no matter how long it may take”. The basic theme is one of persistence despite challenge and adversity. Gritty individuals work steadily toward their goals, despite obstacles and challenges along the way. Duckworth et al., 2007 argued that achievements of individuals with more grit go beyond success explained by intelligence or cognitive

It is most common for people to mention that their “grit” had developed during a fight to regain a position on a sports team or a committee they were involved in. Mine developed because of the loss of a position on a team, yes, but it wasn’t because I whipped myself into shape and conquered tryouts. Instead, mine developed on the base of a realization. A realization that, although I was passionate about the sport all of my life, it was no longer what I wished to do with my free time. The drive had dimmed down and it was time to move on to another passion that would follow me into adulthood. That passion had been unknown to me at the time, but what I did know was that I wanted to stretch my boundaries. I wanted to connect with more people in