Grit : The Power Of Passionry, By Angela Duckworth

In Beyond Grit, Cindra Kamphoff reveals the ten practices that the world’s best use to gain the high performance edge. Kamphoff shares the tools and strategies she’s taught executives, entrepreneurs, NFL ProBowl athletes, Olympians, college athletes, and championship teams. Based on almost twenty years of research and consulting with the world’s best, she provides a practical, inspiring, and easy-to-use guide to radically accelerating your performance and improving your happiness.

In Chapter 9 of Grit, Angela Duckworth argues that a growth mindset, rather than a fixed mindset, leads to more success. She shows that a growth mindset leads to a more optimistic outlook on failures, which further leads to perseverance and the ability to take on new challenges without giving up. Using additional research, I agree with Duckworth’s claim that a growth mindset makes an individual more successful because a growth mindset transforms obstacles into learning opportunities and fosters hope, which are essential skills to overcoming failures and becoming successful.

Angela Duckworth in the book Grit, makes the claim that in order to have grit, you must have passion for what you care about. She explains that having passion for something means each day you will wake up thinking of the same questions you fell asleep thinking about. She also states that in achieving success, having aligned, unified, and ultimate goal. She uses an example of the Hall of Fame baseball player Tom Seaver. He had an overall goal to be the best pitcher of all time and the other aspects of his life were dedicated to that goal. “Pitching determines when I eat, when I go to bed, and what I do when i'm awake.” (63). Tom has baseball as his passion and he is obsessed for it. He is willing to give up other things in his life for the overall

What does grit mean ? According to psychologist Angela Duckworth, grit is defined as“the sustained effort toward a long-term goal.” Do you have grit because I do. I have Demonstrated grit many times in my life and I learn that not everyone is perfect.

I agree with the belief that one must find their passion in life in order to find their purpose. If someone fails to find their passion in life they will be miserable in what their doing because their heart’s not into it. Personally my passion in life is helping others. Someone with a shared passion was Alex Scott. Duckworth

Most people possess all the qualities they will ever need to be successful. In fact, the only qualities that an individual need for success are directly associated with one’s true passion in life. The key is to dig deep enough to find the true passion.

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.

The Oxford Dictionary defines “passion” as a strong emotion or strong love for something. Well then, I would say I am passionate about sports. To turn a passion into a career you must take certain steps in education and to develop special skills that are needed. I love to play sports, and I would like to pursue a career that lets me have the opportunity to become anything from a player to a coach. As there are many careers in the world, there is a career for anyone who has a passion.

At age six, I wanted to be a police officer. At age ten, I wanted to be a professional basketball player. At age sixteen, I wanted to be a doctor. Then at age eighteen, I was unsure about what I wanted to do in my life. I was unsure about why it was that I chose to do something in sciences. Maybe it was the pressure from my parents, maybe it might have been something that I felt would have made a lot of money, but whatever it was I probably will never know. One thing I do know is that at age twenty I found my passion in life. The passion of helping others when they seem down, the passion of teaching others valuable lessons, the passion of being a role model so that others could follow in your footsteps, that passion was coaching.

On September 3, I watched the Ted Talk of Angela Lee Duckworth, a psychologist. She explained the research that she found about grit in students. Specifically she claimed that doing well in school and in life depends on more than the ability to learn quickly and easily. As she said, “What we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective.” Although some people believe that IQ is the best way to measure education, Duckworth insisted that grit is the ultimate way to predetermine your success in life. She stated that “grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals” to support the idea that grit is an accurate predeterminant of success. In addition

For example, in “Follow Your Passions and Success will Follow” it says, “We are all enthusiastic and passionate about something, whether it’s finance, food or a favorite sport, that enthusiasm is very powerful. When we can combine it with our work, we are setting ourselves up well for achieving true” (Alhanati). What makes us have a passion is all the enthusiasm and excitement that we put into that passion, and we know it’s what we want to do as a living and it makes us study and work hard to get to that point.

Jay Gatsby manipulates other characters. Gatsby fails to love Daisy Buchanan; instead, he “seems committed to an idea of Daisy that he has created rather than to the real woman she is” (Hermanson 1). This idea of Daisy represents the American dream. Flaunting his money, Gatsby attempts to seduce the idea of Daisy rather than Daisy herself. Therefore, Gatsby deceives Daisy.

Earnest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” describes a couple - man and woman - held up at a train station in Spain. They begin to waste time on drinking beer and liquor in order to forgo the possible circumstances that has been placed upon them. The American tries his best to persuade the woman to have an abortion, but she is ambiguous about the challenges she might be faced with. Earnest minimizes his words throughout the story in order to exemplify a greater thought, called the Iceberg Theory. Earnest uses hills, landscapes, a white elephant, and the railway junction throughout the story to express the Iceberg Theory.

Through exploration of the world around us, one’s passions are born. Passions make a person who they are. Who I am is shown through my passion for dance, service and exploration.

Definitions of multicultural education vary. Some place emphasizes on the cultural characteristics of diverse groups, some emphasize social problems such as those associated with oppression, some place emphasize on political power, while others on the reallocation of economic resources. Some restrict their focus to people of color, while others include all major groups that are different in any way from mainstream Americans. Other definitions limit multicultural education to characteristics of local schools, and still others provide directions for school reform in all settings regardless of their characteristics.