What You'll Learn:
A UPenn social psychologist discovers the hidden factor that drives accomplishment and correlates strongly to satisfaction with life. This book explains what grit is and how we can develop it in ourselves and in others.
Key Insights:
- At West Point, it isn't grades, test scores, class rank, or athletic prowess, but grit that best predicts who will make it to graduation.
- If talent matters, grit matters twice as much.
- The currency of passion is not intensity but consistency.
- Grit can be built from the inside through discovering interests, linking them to purpose, practicing consistently, and holding to hope.
- Understanding grit helps us build grit into others.
- Unlike most personality traits which have obvious downsides, there doesn’t appear to be such a thing as “too much” grit.
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