The Idea Of Grit By Kathy Brashears

Here we refer to where Ethan Ris quoted NBC News Anchor, Brian Williams, to have said as he interviewed low-income students about Grit at KIPP charter school: “The kids here at KIPP already get it.” (Ethan Ris., - Brian Williams…) Yes, being low-income students it is likely they have already been enduring hardship as a way of life. The Grit traits are in them because from the beginning they have had to ‘make do’ with minimum. As Melissa Dahl quoted Duckworth to have said, “Kids need to develop character, and they need our support in doing so.” (Melissa Dahl. – Duckworth.) This not only reinstates the fact that Grit is indeed an object of character, but it also points back to the earlier statement that Grit should

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

In the article of The Limits Of “Grit” by David Denby there are plenty of interesting ideas that are brought up. One of the ideas that Denby brings up is teaching grit in schools. Denby thinks the idea of teaching grit should be taught it all schools. One point that Denby brings up is when he says the following “ If we suffer from a grit deficiency in this country, it shows up in our unwillingness to face what is obviously true—that poverty is the real cause of failing schools.” ( Denby,4) Denby explains that poverty is the real reason why some

Gritty students succeed because they have courage. Students with grit do not allow themselves to be afraid of failure. “The supremely gritty are not afraid to tank, but rather embrace it as part of a process. They understand that there are valuable lessons in defeat and that vulnerability of perseverance is requisite for high achievement” (Perlis, 5 Characteristics of Grit). Many college students start giving up after receiving failing grades. Many students drop out of college their first year for this reason. A student with grit would not let a minor setback like that stop them. They believe in trial and error. Students with grit know that every experience, positive or negative, is a learn experience. “Gritty people believe, ‘everything will be alright in the end, and if it is not alright, it is not the end” (Perlis, 5 Characteristics of Grit).

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.

Grit is sticking with your future, day in, 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.” (TED

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.

First, Duckworth argues that a growth mindset transforms failures into learning opportunities that make individuals achieve more. In Grit, Duckworth tells a story about David, one of her students whose growth mindset helped him become increasingly successful. Duckworth saw his desire to learn and immediately asked for him to be placed in an accelerated course that provided more challenges and failures. When asked about how he dealt with these new failures, David responded that “I did feel bad - I did - but I didn’t dwell on it. I knew I had to focus on what to do next. I basically tried to figure out, you know, what I did wrong. What I needed to do differently” (Duckworth 19). David’s approach to obstacles in class allowed him to achieve greater things in the future. He later graduated from Swarthmore College and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from UCLA. David learned from his mistakes, and

Angela developed a short questionnaire called the “Grit Test”. One must answer the short questions and the results show where you stand on the scale of Grit. She found that the Grit score of someone predicts the level of the achievement they can have under difficult or challenging circumstances. She tried this test at the United States Military Academy, where she had the cadets take the short test and found that the ones who had the highest Grit were the ones who were most likely to go the through with the stringent training program they went through called the “Beast Barracks”. Not the ones with the highest IQ’s, the most talent, or even the most athletic. She tried again in the Scripp’s Spelling Bee, and saw that those who were most intelligent but had a low Grit score were most likely to not make it as far as those who had a higher score. She declared that those who had higher Grit were more likely to pass because they studied harder and with determination. In all of those, it seemed that Grit was the factor that made the students stand out when it came to success, once again proving high IQ’s always being better wrong. Logos is a bit short, as many times in other articles, Grit is simply a glossed over idea that has been thought of up before. In other places, such as a physics teacher and his students in a school in Australia, he saw that Grit had little to do with

Crede is not assumed with Duckworth’s statement about grit it is irrelevant to him. He doesn’t agree with her side of grit because he doesn’t believe that it should change they way you think or should be taught. “ My overall assessment is that grit is far less important has commonly been amused and claimed ,’’ explains the lead author , Crede. He exposes grit to be something more than just a study he claims for it to change your set of mind to think of it as a mandatory learning skill. The assistant Professor also emphasizes it to be far less important to studies that are now being proven. Crede classifies and argues about how it's not a new study and shouldn’t need to be excelled in learning. Grit has been around so it’s not like it is

How do you build grit in your students? Well, there is not an exact answer to that question. There is, however, ways being tested to see if children will develop grit. Angela Duckworth states, “The best idea is an idea called growth mindset and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed and that it can change with your effort”. When students make an effort to change the way they learn and set long-term goals, they are developing grit. These students will stick to their goals no matter the obstacles they may have to overcome.

The idea of grit is to be used to help students improve on goals they’ve made, but in the The Downside of Grit by Alfie Kohn he would argue that somethings are better left alone instead of trying to pursue them and achieving them with little success. Kohn claims that grit can be counterproductive because anyone could be continuing something that doesn’t make them content with the outcome. He also discusses about how people with grit could experience issues with psychological health when you try over and over again and end up with continuous failure. It would be better to find an alternative pathway that would cause less stress, and end with success. Another argument that Kohn has is against the reliability of the research done on grit doesn’t rely on evidence. It

Grit.” she talks about her 7th grade math students. When grading papers she discovered a staggering difference between her best and worst students. She noticed her stronger kids didn’t have amazing IQ scores and that many of them weren’t doing so well in her

On September third, I watched the TED Talk of Angela Lee Duckworth, on the key to success? Grit. She explained how grit was the major link to our prosperity. Peculiarly she claimed that what education needs is a higher quality of learning from an encouraging perspective. As she said, “what we need is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective.” Although some people believe that being privileged to learn at a faster pace than others and in a much instantaneous manner, the greater number of people believed it was IQ, nevertheless Duckworth reiterated grit is what the key to success is. She stated that grit is the passion and perseverance to achieving long term goals to