Grit Speech

Angela Lee Duckworth defines grit as “passion and perseverance to pursue long term goals” (Duckworth and Winkler, True Grit). Grit is putting your mind towards a goal and not to give up, no matter what obstacle that stands in front of you. By becoming a gritty individual, a person gains courage within their self. Having courage, people manage fear of failure and being true within oneself to aim for things they would have never thought they could achieve. Grit is to aspire and succeed in ones future goals in college. Grit is to help maintain effort and interest over time, also to stay committed in spite of adversity. In Duckworth’s studies she showed how gritty people are more likely to become successful than talented people. In a study conducted

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

Grit is a predictor of academic, professional, and personal success. Grit can be defined as strength of character or the ability to overcome failure and continue to work toward success. People with grit are not always the people with the most natural ability, but their work ethic and ability to overcome obstacles allows them to achieve success. Grit is a very valuable characteristic in almost any venture, as it gives someone an advantage in overcoming the inevitable obstacles they will face. However, grit is much easier adopted when an individual has a growth mindset.

Duckworth (2013) defines and explains grit as “Passion, perseverance, and stamina” she goes on to state that these characteristics or grit, “outweigh IQ as a predictor of success.” Based on Gladwell’s explanation of 10,000 hours of practice and the direct correlation to success, it can also be concluded that individuals that complete 10,000 hours of practice in their respective fields have passion and drive could also be described as

Duckworth’s main point in, “Grit is Better than IQ” is to make the argument that perseverance is more important than just being intelligent, and that the current generation needs to break free from the idea that they do not know how to work hard while learning pure grit. I agree that grit can be more important in life outside of school than test scores were while the students were obtaining an education. Other than that, I disagree with most of Duckworth’s argument; grit cannot be taught in a classroom and it definitely cannot be learned by a student who does not see the value in it. Neither teachers nor parents can teach or force their kids to be grittier.

Have you ever set a long-term goal and were so determined to meet that goal no matter what happened? Angela Duckworth states, “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”. Sticking with a long-term goal, when you seem to have hit every bump in the road possible means that you contain grit. In class, we discussed how talent is inversely related to grit. Angela Duckworth did a study and made high school students take her grit test. In this test, she realized that the more grit that the student possessed, the higher chance that student would graduate.

Understanding grit can be a rather large connection with the two definitions of mindset. In a more generalized term grit is all about determination. With being gritty as some people like to call it, it is about staying with a task and continuing with making yourself better. In the article “ Angela Duckworth and Research on “Grit” it states her definition of grit, such as the article stating “she defines grit as “sticking with things over the very long term until your master them.” In addition, grit is about trying hard not being smart. There have been many situations where having grit can lead you to mastering a certain task that one may find difficult. Such as the topic that was touched on the most in the article was going through college and how that may sometimes have a person challenging themselves to try harder than those who are seen as smarter. Such as in the article where it states “ all students at an Ivy League school- people who are not as bright as their peers “compensate by working harder and with more determination” (pg15).

Hook: In her article “MacArthur 'Genius' Angela Duckworth Responds To A New Critique Of Grit,” Anya Kamenetz discusses assistant professor of psychology Marcus Crede’s assessment of grit. Which he is effectively, comparatively the assistant psychologist is stating and telling the audience that grit is nothing new and has never been anything new. As a result he is conveying the readers to see his point of view , and his criticism towards duckworth's grit scale. As well how duckworths describing her traits on the grit scale. Although Duckworth admits to the charge of badly describing the size of her outcomes.

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,

Good afternoon, everyone, today I am here to talk about why having grit is far more important than being intelligent. First, I would like to start off by defining grit in comparison to intelligence. Grit is a state of mental toughness whereby we have perseverance and passion for achieving our long-term goals. Intelligence, on the other hand, is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

What fascinated me about Duckworth talk is that success is not link to IQ but grit. The one thing I took away from the talk is that grit is effort that success is built upon. As for myself I was able to cultivate grit because I was taught that perseverance is everything in life. When she mention growth mindsets it reminded me of the time professor Riggs used to tell us that one of her son has a growth mindset and the other has a fixed mindset. Where it easier for one of her son too look pass his mistake and learn from it. As for her other son he always frustrated when he fail at something. Grit is the ability to persevere toward your goal by overcoming difficult times and moving forward during the time of adversity, failure, rejection, and

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.

On September 6, 2015, I watched the TED Talk of The Key to Success: Grit,by a psychologist, Angela Duckworth. Angela Duckworth claims that grit is about how it takes more than IQ and intelligence to persevere through a personal long-term goal. Specifically she claimed that grit is the key success for accomplishing one goal for a long period of time. As she said in the text, “Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that’s what grit allows you to do” (Angela Duckworth). Although some people believe that in order to succeed in life you must be the smartest, most intelligent person to get the job done, Angela Duckworth insisted that by saying “it’s not enough to just show up; one must show up again and again

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives many different definitions defining the word “grit”. A definition that caught my attention was “unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger” .It gave me a personal reference as to reaching a goal, you have to be faced with challenges that you’ll need to conquer with grit being included. In Angela Lee Duckworth’s TED Talk, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” she claims that having students being pushed to the max is the only way to see the full extent of grit, and I agree with Duckworth. I was able to demonstrate grit on becoming a better basketball play after not making the team my sophomore year of high school. Ever since I was disappointed in my results of not making the team, I had told myself this wasn’t going to mean I was done playing basketball .I gave myself perseverance in knowing I could make it next year with motivation.