Angela Duckworth Grit Analysis

Grit written by Angela Duckworth is an excerpt explaining the psychology of talent, effort and achievement. Angela gives us her blueprint of success and what makes high achievers so determined and focused. To go deep into detail my favorite piece about this excerpt was she explained the talent from skills, skills are only developed by hours and hours of beating on your craft and talent is something that comes s and is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. This excerpt reminded me back when I played High School Football and wasn’t very experienced with the sport while my fellow teammates understood each position and play but overtime with extra training with coaches and daily repetition of studying plays I became one of the best players on the team.

As much times I wanted to quit the sport of football and give up I pushed through and set short goals to keep myself improving.

The low and high-level goals that I set myself to accomplish made it easier each step of my career which is described in the excerpt as “Goal Hierarchy” as explained in the piece are specific concrete goals. Another piece Angela explains is if we get Grit from our DNA, it was stated “some of the variation in grit in the population can be attributed to genetic factors, and the rest can be attributed to experience” meaning some may contact grit through how you were raised and through experiences you went through. Growing up with exacting standards and respect tends to confer a lot of benefits, one especially related to grit, on page 5 paragraph 2 it has stated that “wise parenting encourages children to emulate their parents, while parents play a vital role in grit so the habits they mimic. The culture in which we live and with which we identify also influences grit. The bottom line on culture and grit is: If you want to be grittier, find a gritty culture and join it. If you’re a leader, and you want the people in your organization to be grittier and create a gritty

culture. The culture shapes our identity, the way we do things around here and why eventually becomes the way I do things and why. So Grit doesn’t always have to be inherited it can be brought from experience. You can cultivate interests, develop and habit of daily practice and work on a purpose beyond yourself.