Exploring the Power of Grit in Student Success

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The students that have Grit will get a better future in life. There will be a lot of students that don’t have grit in college that will give up and don’t want to try again. They might have something in common and they want to try something new. Grit is the motivating of us to keep trying and not to give up. We might need a little encouragement to help us to get back up when we are down. Grit is a great passion in our lives so we can achieve our goals. One of our greater predictions is the intelligence. The students enables to accomplish the great obstacles. The students like me are hard workers and we can success in any subject with the talent. Grit is like a fixed characteristic from the student that don’t have grit. Some of the students that don't have grit will give up so easily and don’t want to try again. When they fail their classes, they will feel like a failure or embarrassment and they will drop out at school. It is hard to keep or get a job because if some them will quit at that, they will quit at everything else. They are in a habit of doing something new and then quit when it’s get hard enough. When we come home from college for the weekend we will go to church …show more content…

They are always saying oh my God or don’t judge me. They just give up on Him because they think He is not helping them when they pray to Him, but they wouldn't give Him time to help. Perhaps the major reason for the disbelief is the Bible. Many were brought up to believe the Bible contained no errors, but as they discovered problems and understand the errors, they could no longer believe what they had been taught and they could see no middle ground, so they felt to be forced to abandonment the belief. Some came to this conclusion of reading the works of critical scholars who pointed out differences in the Gospel accounts and difficulties in believing some of accounts that are totally in the

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