Resilience, Courage, and Tenacity All Wrapped Into One

He had been told he couldn’t do it…that he didn’t have the talent. And he believed that for years. But then, he leaned in. He caught a glimpse. It was too late for ivy league training, too late for the high powered internships, too late for the career-setting opportunity straight out of college. But it wasn’t too late for grit.

So, he took what he had been learning and stayed up late, consulted with others, grew his band of allies, and grew his business venture. After about a decade of success, people asked how he did it.

Grit. He worked hard. He went the extra mile. He kept learning. He kept going when he could have stopped and he started when he might not have tried at all.

His story is like many of ours. In all arenas of life, Angela Duckworth, author of Grit, states, “Talent counts, but grit counts twice as much.”

And her statement is not just some nice notion about effort. With mounds of research from the military to education to business to the arts to the home, she finds that those who lean in, who persevere, who exercise grit…these are the ones who get it done.

Worth Repeating

Talent counts, but grit counts twice as much.

-Angela Duckworth