“When I first started interviewing grit paragons, I assumed they’d all have stories about the singular moment when, suddenly, they’d discovered their God-given passion… And I think this is also what young graduates-roasting in their caps and gowns, the hard edge of the folding chair biting into their thighs-imagine it must be like to discover your life’s passion… But, in fact, most grit paragons I’ve interviewed told me they spent years exploring several different interests, and the one that eventually came to occupy all of their waking (and sometimes sleeping) thoughts wasn’t recognizably their life’s destiny on first acquaintance.” (Interest, 99-100).Psychological Assets of Grit Paragons: Interest, Practice, Purpose, Hope (Grit Grows, 91-92).“It’s as if the highest-level goal gets written in ink, once you’ve done enough living and reflecting to know what that goal is, and the lower-level goals get written in pencil, so you can revise them and sometimes erase them altogether, and then figure out new ones to take their place.” (How Gritty Are You?, 69).Endurance is rare.” (How Gritty Are You?, 58) Grit is not just falling in love it’s staying in love (How Gritty Are You?, 54).Without effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.” (Effort Counts Twice, 51) Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn’t. “Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential.“Even more than the effort a gritty person puts in on a single day, what matters is that they wake up the next day and the next, ready to get on that treadmill and keep going.” (Effort Counts Twice, 50).Talent x Effort = Skill -> Skill x Effort = Achievement (Effort Counts Twice, 42).“‘Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.’” (Effort Counts Twice, 38).“By shining our spotlight on talent, we risk leaving everything else in the shadows.” (Distracted by Talent, 31).What we do with it is quite another.” (Showing Up, 14) Here are 20 of my takeaways: (Citation is chapter title and page number) Today, I thought it might be interesting to share a few of those quotes and insights with you. What I ended up with was a 5-page book summary my own sort of Spark Notes. This time, I went one step further and actually typed all the quotes into a word doc. Usually my “note-taking” process stops here, quick and easy. I use the markup tool to highlight the sentence that caught my eye. Instead, I take pictures on my phone of any page that piques my interest. I don’t like to mark up my books, and I think taking notes is too much work and is disruptive and makes reading unenjoyable. With a book club at work, I recently read the book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth.
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