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A clip from Angela Lee Duckworth’s TED Talk “Grit: the power of passion and perseverance” from TED Talks Education 2013
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success.
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What if doing well in school and in life
depends on much more than your ability to
learn quickly and easily?
I started studying kids and adults
in all kinds of super challenging settings,
and in every study my question was,
“Who is successful here and why?”
My research team and I went to West Point
Military Academy.
We tried to predict which cadets would stay
in military training
and which would drop out.
We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried
to predict
which children would advance farthest in competition.
We partnered with private companies, asking,
“Which of these salespeople is going to keep
their jobs?
And who’s going to earn the most money?”
In all those very different contexts,
one characteristic emerged as a significant
predictor of success.
And it wasn’t social intelligence.
It wasn’t good looks, physical health, and
it wasn’t I.Q.
It was grit.
Grit is passion and perseverance for very
long-term goals.
Grit is having stamina.
Grit is sticking with your future,
day in, day out, not just for the week,
not just for the month, but for years,
and working really hard to make that future
a reality.
A few years ago, I started studying grit in
the Chicago public schools.
I asked thousands of high school juniors to
take grit questionnaires,
and then waited around more than a year to
see who would graduate.
Turns out that grittier kids
were significantly more likely to graduate,
even when I matched them on every characteristic
I could measure, things like family income,
standardized achievement test scores,
even how safe kids felt when they were at
school.
So it’s not just at West Point
or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters.
It’s also in school, especially for kids at
risk for dropping out.
Every day, parents and teachers ask me,
“How do I build grit in kids?”
So far, the best idea I’ve heard about building
grit in kids
is something called “growth mindset.”
This is an idea developed
at Stanford University by Carol Dweck,
and it is the belief that the ability to learn
is not fixed,
that it can change with your effort.
Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids
read and learn about the brain
and how it changes and grows in response to
challenge,
they’re much more likely to persevere when
they fail,
because they don’t believe that failure is
a permanent condition.
So growth mindset is a great idea for building
grit.
But we need more.
We need to take our best ideas, our strongest
intuitions,
and we need to test them.
We need to measure whether we’ve been successful,
and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong,
to start over again with lessons learned.
Mr. D
April 30, 2021 at 8:18 pm
Grit only matters when I have a vision for my future. Dream. Then take persistent action.
Nathan Barnhart
April 30, 2021 at 8:19 pm
How does one quantify/qualify “grit?” She didn’t really seem to go into what that actually means
Shoham Sen
April 30, 2021 at 8:19 pm
Yup. Thats right. Only 1 question u need to ask yourself “How bad do u want it?”
Kiyohshi
April 30, 2021 at 8:22 pm
Let’s say you have to sell 1k bars of chocolate for an award. That’s a lot of time & work to put in, but someone else could just buy the whole thing themself & get the same award. Both would reach our idea of “success” despite having different amounts of grit.
So success & challenges are subjective while also our drives (which fuel our grit) depend on environmental factors. Grit downplays the role of disadvantages & advantages according to whatever challenge/obstacle is to be overcome. Grit is impacted by all those other traits she said so of course it’d be the greatest common factor.
It’s like if there was an MMA fight with people of all different builds & fight styles & I concluded that every successful victor won as result of being a great fighter. WELL DUH.. but I’m sure those so many unrecorded factors, their diet, head space (which is effected by everything, like a recent death, awareness of an affair, anxiety etc) physical traits, age/health, sleep. I mean summing it up to one thing seems so negligent of everything else.
Me Me
April 30, 2021 at 8:48 pm
Success is learning from failures.
Derrick Santos
April 30, 2021 at 8:55 pm
I like my Grits with eggs and sausages
sanchit agarwal
April 30, 2021 at 8:59 pm
As said by Rocky Balboa ” it’s about how much you can take and keep moving forward “….the essence of being successful is just not limited to one’s achievements it lies more in the realisation of how you overcame those tough phases,how much you worked hard for it,how much you sacrificed and how you NEVER GAVE UP…..
ᄋyogid
April 30, 2021 at 9:00 pm
If only I known this earlier my life would be better …😮
thanks for sharing. .🙏
Brandon
April 30, 2021 at 9:11 pm
The strongest prediction for success = inheritance… people who have money hoarde it and generate more capital. If you aren’t born into it, then you’re never getting in…
dirakuning
April 30, 2021 at 9:27 pm
This is a re-uploaded video right?
Ruben Kamphuis
April 30, 2021 at 9:36 pm
Grit is just a rebranding of the personality aspect ‘conscientiousness’ at best, and downright deceitful at worst. It’s been known since at least 2018 that when you test for grit and control for conscientiousness, the whole construct just evaporates.
cgfreeandeasy
April 30, 2021 at 9:56 pm
How can i get “grit”, if i do not have it become within my Development while i growing up? And what does it with me and my grown constitution, when this blessing feature, if i became it suddenly, messes up my stability?
It is easy to select from a given number of people those who have desirable qualities…in the dynamics of the situation be able to raise. But how can you avoid the easy and effortless selection process? Picking the good from the bad is a parasitic strategy because it lets fates and other people’s performance do all the work and then profits from the success of some. That one otherwise likes to undermine evolution is not visible here.
It may turn out that authoritarian conditions are the worst obstacles to the development of optimistic and motivated characters, so that in a given set of people you will not find anyone who has ever given up or who has never declared that they will not even begin to try to square the circle!
And the problem is that for the fault/lack of parents, their children have to suffer. But it is also true that the alternative (orphaning the child into a surrogate parent) does not solve the problem, because any alternative is not a sufficient substitute for real parental care. But if the parents have already been orphaned, the children naturally have to start all over again, and this is easily frustrated if the demands are set high because other people are already much further along in this development because they had it easier under the conditions.
Orphaning” is meant here in the setting in that it is not the parents who become the main educator and supporter, but systemically generated educational structures that lack the necessary emotional relationship between role model and child.
No emotional foundation, then no cognitive progress or sufficient motivation can be expected. For what, then?
And the question is, of course, why anyone is still talking about the fact that we live in the freest time and world, when people still lose all motivation, despite the imperative, because the environment repeatedly and deliberately misinterprets the “free-thinking imperatives”. Apart from the fact that in all freedom one still has duties to maintain one’s own existence. In other words, practically egoistic duties, such as the fulfilment of needs.
hokey pokey
April 30, 2021 at 10:00 pm
strongest predictor for success is when you have the government, media and big pharma and world leaders working together to make something happen – lol
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April 30, 2021 at 10:45 pm
Without the help of expert Eric Donald I would have still been in abject poverty struggling with life
Tola Seng
April 30, 2021 at 10:36 pm
Another “academic” trying hard to rehash common sense by coining a new term; acting as if they discovered fire when this idea is as old as mankind itself.
Y N
April 30, 2021 at 10:42 pm
Quando eu me esforço diariamente em um certo período, sempre acho que estou perdendo meu tempo e paro de tentar.
Zealotes the Aussie
April 30, 2021 at 10:46 pm
The strongest one: save the environment, or none of the others will matter at all.
Richard Phillipsburg
April 30, 2021 at 11:33 pm
Great idea making this a bite size video 😜
Itsaty
April 30, 2021 at 11:49 pm
I call BS
Abhay Bhatt
April 30, 2021 at 11:49 pm
I am sorry but grit is a useless concept in cases of failures arising out of some permanent condition in brain like Aspergers or Borderline or Bipolar Disorder.
Chris G
May 1, 2021 at 12:10 am
But what is success to you? Success is subjective
suicune2001
May 1, 2021 at 12:25 am
That makes a lot of sense. I think of when I was in college and I was doing homework on the floor in the school store because I couldn’t afford some of my books.
bj0rn
May 1, 2021 at 1:02 am
I don’t like the idea of teaching kids to work hard for its own sake. What kids need is real motivation. It’s easy to give up if you don’t see the point.
Đạt Đỗ
May 1, 2021 at 1:20 am
What is grit..?
Jastria Rahmat
May 1, 2021 at 11:28 am
this is old topic reupload. why?
JustShutUpNWatch
May 1, 2021 at 12:49 pm
so ted made a 3 minute version because the annotated full 6 minute was too long. nice.
Draalo
May 1, 2021 at 12:49 pm
She is so wrong about everything she is talking about – who gave her the adience?
BeauBelle Da
May 1, 2021 at 12:59 pm
Is grit like IQ, hard to develop?
ilovejimrogers
May 1, 2021 at 2:26 pm
I got the grits. Whoops, spelling mistake, sorry.
To Go
May 1, 2021 at 2:31 pm
In Japan, the concept of grit is not so familiar to people,so this video is very surprising to me.
I’d like to do anything I can in order to built my own grit right now.
Emily Gomez
May 1, 2021 at 2:37 pm
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Thanks to fire movement.
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May 1, 2021 at 3:11 pm
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May 1, 2021 at 3:15 pm
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Emily Gomez
May 1, 2021 at 3:18 pm
@noah jones It’s my pleasure to help you and hopefully your financial journey will be awesome 😊
Emma Campbell
May 1, 2021 at 3:18 pm
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Emily Gomez
May 1, 2021 at 3:19 pm
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Mellia Boom Bot
May 1, 2021 at 3:14 pm
Ive totally come to the conclusion that this type of video on Youtube is so useless………….who gives a F…what is success? what is being rich? what on earth do these things have in common? it is all down to the pursuit of money. And there are NO pockets in a shroud…
Dan
May 1, 2021 at 3:28 pm
yea no.. we already have conscientiousness, stop inventing new terms for the same concept; I know they tried to make it look a bit different but it’s not valid
Shehan Saleem
May 1, 2021 at 3:54 pm
I love you
L R
May 1, 2021 at 4:26 pm
resilience
Louis Schoener
May 1, 2021 at 4:36 pm
A good portion of the time real success is knowing when to quit.
Sonu Shetty
May 1, 2021 at 5:04 pm
How to be successful? Work Hard. Thats all the video is about. How? Idk.
Erson Pertuz
May 1, 2021 at 6:39 pm
What is grit ?
KootFloris
May 1, 2021 at 6:41 pm
Dangerous flaw in this story. Is it grit, or a push to self sacrifice and perhaps even others for your ambition. Too often I’ve seen people stop, because they learned their goals were harming them and others. Perhaps empathy is more important!
Ans Alias
May 1, 2021 at 7:15 pm
Passion and perseverance ❤
TWN321
May 1, 2021 at 7:19 pm
Nothing about peer group??
Mani
May 1, 2021 at 7:53 pm
This is not as simple as it looks.
António Roque
May 1, 2021 at 9:03 pm
That’s why Humanity came so far, we are a very stubborn species. Most of the times we aren’t right, but by will power and some luck, we overcome.
Aziz Öztürk
May 1, 2021 at 10:06 pm
Grit: Yes, it is a great power for human beings unless you don’t steer in the wrong direction(passion)..
Lawrence Foy
May 1, 2021 at 11:14 pm
re: audit of Maricopa’s vote , my speculation is [ prior to voteing, a group of republicans, feared their votes would be singled out and thown away, in large boxes where statiticians had pre determined, the results would b biased [ for the entire poll or vote in specific areas ] known to be biased toward republicans, where in fact if a single box of thousands of votes, most of them voting republican, could of been removed, and thus never counted, so my theory is a huge group of repblicans used invisible ink [ stamps ] the stamped their ballots with [ which contained an incremental number ], and these invisible ink will appear clerarly photographicable, within the correct specturn of light, black or ultra-violet is in fact such a specturm, so if this is correct, then the audit is looking for the votes with those special invisible ink [ like a water mark ] n in fact if these water marks r individually numbered n many thousands of those votes,
photgraphed as the [ individual ] voters, applied their numbered invisible water marks to their paper ballots;
if those votes are FOUND TO B *MISSING* ( from the votes ) [ being examined ] with a special color spectrum light tool, which is NOT counting the votes, it’s taking a photograph of each vote? idunno but that’s both *MY SPECULATION* n some of the details i have viewed on videos, where the news media, has interviewed ppl who claim not to have any idea why these VOTE AUDITORS r in fact shining some special light tool, on every vote, then thas as far as i’ve been ablle to speculate on the possible reality of [ the past n the present ] *BUT* i have speculated bout the FUTURE, if alot of votes R missing, it will be sufficient cause, to claim every politician, in every political job, got there via vote FRAUD, without having to prove anything ( outside ) of the very FIRST TIME these people, get caught JUST ONCE, [ *ANYWHERE* ] ,
the first step, would prolly b skipped, that would b fire’ing all politicians, [ *EVERYWHERE* ] n replacing them with qualifed ( skilled ) people hired from classified advertising, meaning there wud never again b *ANY* elections or politicians *EVER AGAIN* but the 2nd step [ which is in fact the bttr choice ] is to *COMPLETELY DISOLVE* this bankrupt ponzi scheme ( sociial security ) *ALONE* in fact already *PROVES* that much is already known
plus everyone already knows, *MONOPOLIES* r HARMFUL this has already been proven many times n our Laws already recognize this fact; plus everyone already knows, our united states [ government ] is in fact a monopoly, and we don’t have not even a single other choice to choose from; And our government has in fact already become a business which provides products n services , same as any [ private busniness ] which could in fact *IMMEDIATELY* replace our entire government [ with millions ] of private businesses, all competing for our loyalty [ as new prospective ] *CONSUMERS* [ these big n small ] thriving profitable, many new businesses would love to have our business; They would be grateful n treat us consumers [ of their products n services ] with respect, by providing
1) timely services;
2) bttr quality services;
3) lower prices;
there isn’t anything a private business can’t do bttr than govt; If vote fraud is not found, but [ *individual* [ employees such as Joe Biden ] become *AWARE* of this fact that private industry can save taxpayers money, n service our needs as [ *CONSUMERS* ] bttr than government, and they *FAIL* to switch [ *every dept.* ] to all private [ service providers ] *immediately* they will be under citizens arrest for treason, and i will in fact settle this once and for all, properly, inside a real court, where all the old less than optimal ( one by one ) old nonsense will be challenged [ and none of it’s defendable ] [ it only exists ] [ because government is an unlawful monopoly ]; As [ consumers ] of products n services [ it is treason ] we only have once choice we don’t have any competing [ private service providers ] who would love to treat us to bttr [ products n services ]; They could create [ without this ongoing crime ] of crazy insane spending on useless [ products n services ] [ and the high cost of government expenses ] which bankrupted our united states [ government ];
Lawrence Wilson Foy dob 2.10.1954 Chateauroux France [ signature valid in any court ] [ signed LWF ] 5.1.2021 in Terlingua Tx;
907kat
May 1, 2021 at 11:16 pm
So what is “grit”? How do you measure it? This sounds like saying the strongest predictor of success is whether or not you are eventually successful… that’s not a predictor.
Niranjan Hanasoge
May 2, 2021 at 12:26 am
Counter-example: Roger Federer
Yessenia Moreno
May 2, 2021 at 5:11 am
isn’t viral enough
Arshnoor singh
May 2, 2021 at 7:47 am
Great 👍
Kelvin
May 2, 2021 at 7:53 am
I don’t even know why studying in college should be a thing
Risabh Bhadani
May 2, 2021 at 10:57 am
Great communication
ultimateei
May 2, 2021 at 11:07 am
love her book of grid
Joseph Lat
May 2, 2021 at 11:25 am
Thanks for the video,I really enjoy it and learn alot from it 🙏
Vatian
May 2, 2021 at 1:32 pm
I think we already know this. Fail, try, fail harder, try again, succeed. Yeah, yeah. I’m really sorry, but what else?
sliish 420
May 2, 2021 at 3:35 pm
grit isn’t the best predictor. it’s wealth. it’s always wealth.
Elizabeth Leach
May 2, 2021 at 5:18 pm
I’ve known this for years. Why did I make Will a dump stat
Iqra Ahmad
May 2, 2021 at 7:25 pm
The video is uploaded 2 days back, I am surprised my teacher told this to me 5 years later.
saptanto putra
May 2, 2021 at 7:56 pm
Cute
Dik Nuggets
May 2, 2021 at 10:34 pm
the biggest indicator of success is coming from wealth. I dont care whatever else bullshit you try to sell, but if you come from a wealthy family you’re pretty much set.
faydu laksono
May 3, 2021 at 12:08 am
what difference grit and resilience?
4NoRaisin
May 3, 2021 at 1:54 am
We are studying intangibles here. We change the curriculum on a regular basis. The system is trying to create a basis for failure and testing for placebo students
John Tate
May 3, 2021 at 4:47 am
Best predictor of success = grit. Grit = desire to succeed, effort until succeeding. Therefore, success is correlated with wanting to succeed and then working to succeed. Neat.
C
May 3, 2021 at 9:32 am
Very good speaker too as well intelligent.
Endah Rosa
May 3, 2021 at 10:54 am
I think this is one of the best TED videos on personal development. I’ve watched and read Dr. Angela Duckworth’s book about GRIT and I think it resonates with me and is pretty realistic. It also propels me to work harder on my dreams and help me persevere. Those endless efforts and sleepless nights eventually get me to Columbia (even though I’m not coming from a top uni in Indonesia). Thank you so much, Dr!
viki thatzme
May 3, 2021 at 10:55 am
Well said!!
Ritika
May 3, 2021 at 12:18 pm
Seen her somewhere else too. Beautiful dress 🥰
dc
May 3, 2021 at 12:22 pm
What is success? Who defines success? Do you need some else, like this video to tell you how to be successful?
Alex Gunawan
May 3, 2021 at 12:52 pm
Born in rich family.
widndn
May 3, 2021 at 1:56 pm
You have to want it to get it.
I call it the 3 Ds. Desire, determanation and discipline. With these three you can accomplish what you are willing to work for.
Miller's Language School
May 3, 2021 at 2:04 pm
Just go forward! Do not stop! This is the main idea of success!
kaluq
May 3, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Lady: And if you want to see how grit looks like, pay close attention to how I speak..
SpiritedAway Eleven
May 3, 2021 at 3:39 pm
Isn’t she stating the obvious?
Sophie Lorber
May 3, 2021 at 3:57 pm
Are we talking about success or money?
As a teacher I hate how we continue to communicate to children that “success” equals “wealth”. You can live a successful life in an average paying job and feel like a complete failure with 1 billion in your bankaccount. Of course it’s important to have enough money to life comfortable, but most people strive to own much more.
THE ANGRY QUAD
May 3, 2021 at 4:07 pm
Hard work, Hard work and Hard work……..
Simple Peppers Cooking&Baking
May 3, 2021 at 4:21 pm
I go to success every day! This is my rule!
Raymond Huang - Personal Development
May 3, 2021 at 7:08 pm
Consistent hard work regardless of “feelings” of motivation is key
Patricia Offer
May 3, 2021 at 10:39 pm
‘Failure’s temporary.’
HerrFunnybones
May 3, 2021 at 11:43 pm
Out of two becomes one and out of one comes great cosmic might..
Eliot Li
May 4, 2021 at 3:02 am
I’m glad my teachers talked about a growth mindset.
A G
May 4, 2021 at 3:38 am
How do we distinguish grit from grandiosity? To be able to hold on to a long-term plan, we have to hold on to a big dream, don’t we?
pinoyboy fernandez
May 4, 2021 at 5:41 am
She got her grit from her Asian parents.
samuel zhang
May 4, 2021 at 9:06 am
if you read wikipedia there is some criticism of the grit
MrMosoani
May 4, 2021 at 10:52 am
ReUploaded? I watched this video years ago.
aamidjaythreepointoh
May 4, 2021 at 2:19 pm
Yes. The talk is from 2013
Donna Allgaier-Lamberti
May 4, 2021 at 12:33 pm
Are we talking about success as in money only? Or success as in having a successful marriage and raising happy and healthy children?
TLR TLR
May 4, 2021 at 12:44 pm
Funny, I’ve watched a different TED talk stating that the ability to visualise and persue long term goals is one of the strongest predictors of IQ. Seems like a bit of potato/potato.
TLR TLR
May 4, 2021 at 12:51 pm
So, not giving up is key if you want to succeed. Wow, mind blowing!
Sixuan Gong
May 4, 2021 at 1:28 pm
100% do something you believe in doesn’t require other’s encouragement, you need focus x time
truhhhhhhhokIII3
May 4, 2021 at 2:28 pm
This is why skateboarders have an edge, you learn real quick if you want something you’ll fail quite a few times first
Lewis Stoen
May 5, 2021 at 10:23 pm
Great example but there’s many other things that can give u an edge therefore I wouldn’t say just one group has an edge
truhhhhhhhokIII3
May 6, 2021 at 6:44 pm
@Lewis Stoen that is true, but I wasnt meaning to be exclusive to just skateboarding. But comparative to say other sports which are point orientated, with the only result win or lose being determined by sometimes not even your own accord. Skateboarders generally in order to take the initial risk, learn to have to push past their comfort zone and then repeat physical and mental pain until their goal is met (trick landed) then repeated until perfection or close to it. Which only things like bmx, rock climbing, skiiing etc that could be considered athletic pursuits comparitive to that same goal orientation, which I find fascinating knowing skateboarding is the fastest growing sport currently, and nobody scientifically studies anything about skateboarding which could lead to some unique insight is basically my point haha
JMKnack
May 4, 2021 at 4:53 pm
This is true, allthough grit is nothing more than a variation of the advice of “Don’t quit whatever obstacles you may face, whatever struggles in the way.” In order to see a goal through you have to stay the course no matter how many times you fall and even stop midway, keep reminding yourself of the reasons to move forward especially what is on the other side if you stop which is mostly regret, more suffering and ultimate failure itself which resides in our minds forever of the what ifs questions.
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May 4, 2021 at 8:15 pm
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May 4, 2021 at 8:37 pm
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May 4, 2021 at 8:39 pm
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May 4, 2021 at 8:40 pm
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May 4, 2021 at 8:47 pm
C..O..N..T..A..C..T ..(HER)..(O..N )
W..h..A..T..S..A..P..P
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C. L W
May 4, 2021 at 8:45 pm
Nothing new
Erik Peterson
May 5, 2021 at 12:07 am
True Grit…….it’s true 👍
Matt C
May 5, 2021 at 12:26 am
Basically what she is trying to say, “Those who want it the most will achieve it.”
Miles Dugmore
May 6, 2021 at 2:50 am
@Matt C but you can find the sort of people born into hopeless situations… take say an orphaned traumatized Black child in America, and Warren Buffets son, now are you going to say that to be as successful as Warren Buffets son, all he needs is “grit” ?? what do you think trauma does to the developing child ?
Miles Dugmore
May 6, 2021 at 2:52 am
@Matt C there are also proper research articles that show that poverty and the associated stress lowers IQ, and when the poverty is removed, the IQ goes up… where is grit in this equation ?
Matt C
May 6, 2021 at 3:36 am
@Miles Dugmore I associate “want” with grit… because if you want it the most… there is no way your giving up..
Miles Dugmore
May 6, 2021 at 4:04 am
@Matt C there is a tonne of research, certainly in the UK, I don’t know about the US. If all things were equal, then the ones who want it the most with be the winners – except all things are not equal, and the biggest predictor of success is the family you are born into – and I cannot see how anyone can argue against this. Apart from proper research, there have been many documentaries about how the best jobs are reserved for certain groups. I remember one example, where this girl was the first girl in her family to get to university and I think she got an honors degree. That would have taken true grit. But now many companies, I think this one was Merrel Lynch only indenture new people. So she could not afford to live in London for 2 years on next to nothing. The girl who got the position just happened to have parents who had a “flat” in London, the sort of place they would use when they were “in” London. So you want to tell me the girl who was the first one to go to university in her family has less grit than the one who came from the privileged family ?
Miles Dugmore
May 6, 2021 at 4:06 am
@Matt C many of us “want” and by definition will expend true “grit”, but those who are born into the right families can have “want” without the true “grit” and get the position in preference to even those who expend “true grit”.. So my point is and you can see it anywhere you want to look, that the biggest predictor of success is to be born into the right family… but despite all the research, many people don’t like this and do all they can to deny the obvious…
Khy Nau
May 5, 2021 at 1:00 am
This is why education is going downhill, its due to “grit.”
Al Electric
May 5, 2021 at 2:50 am
She’s get canceled at a western university.
rishikey yadav
May 5, 2021 at 6:11 am
Woa.. she summarized my life’s experience in 3 minutes..
Rohith N
May 5, 2021 at 10:39 am
What about Steve Jobs
Who got success are 420! Selfish bastard’s
Build their Teams
Covid19 virus raping those successful bastard’s
Success never come if you hacked by cybercriminals
biao leng
May 5, 2021 at 5:05 pm
I was the gritest child among us,but now I lost it.
Miles Dugmore
May 6, 2021 at 2:35 am
cut the BS.. the best predictor of success is to be born into the right family.. but that is so non PC that this presenter would refuse to discuss it.. what a load of BS.. if she is talking about “grit’, then this idiot needs to ask where “grit” comes from… Jesus, this is all shallow BS.. so someone in Lagos with no parents will succeed if they have “grit”.. I would say someone born into a wealthy functional family who is sent to good schools and has a good upbringing will not need any grit but is very highly likely to succeed… especially if they can take over daddy’s business.. and the biggest sickness of this message, is the underlying message, that if you don’t succeed then it is your responsibility.. this degenerates into cheap propaganda..
TRIBE OF MENTORS
May 6, 2021 at 3:30 pm
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will give you enough strength and confidence to overcome every problem on your own.
Monday PositiviTea
May 6, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Ideas, intuition, and strong judgement go hand in hand + ability to take calculated risks.
john tucker
May 6, 2021 at 9:24 pm
why do we need more? Everybody can’t make it to the top, there is no room …..
Silver Surfer
May 6, 2021 at 9:51 pm
That’s a shortsighted assertion.
If you really want to know who’s going to be successful in life, watching him(or her) 1 year later is too short.
Life is a long distance race. You can’t prove anything watching him only 1 year.
Besides, real life is not that simple. I’ve known many people who’s gentle, flexible, not gritty but very successful.
Sometimes people and society have tendency to avoid gritty people. Sometimes people and society would prefer gentle, cooperative people than gritty ones.
I’m not saying that gentle people are always successful than gritty people.
I’m saying that life and society are complicated. There’s no one character which will bring you success always.
Sometimes gritty people wins, but sometimes gentle, cooperative and reserved people may win.
Parents shouldn’t try to change children’s natural characters to make them successful.
Cherish their own characters. It may brings them real success in life in a long distance.
Al Savery
May 6, 2021 at 10:51 pm
First I thought it’s something new but then I see that it’s from 2013. So after 8 years, they just recycle the same old crap. This can only mean that it’s a dead-end. No new insights nothing.
John Hoey
May 6, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Stick-to-it-ivness is what my PhD advisor called me. Combined with consummate work ethic, it’s a sure winner!
Starfruit
May 7, 2021 at 12:44 am
So Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg should have scored low on those Grit Questionnaires on school, no? In my shallow opinion, the ‘grit’ thing seems kinda reverse. Meaning, it’s just seeing from surveys who’s got more willing and motivation to finish a certain project; long or short, simple or complicated, and of course when those people turn out to complete or success in the project more than other groups or cohorts from the survey, they just name the willingness and motivation ‘grit’. Could this be useful that much? Like, providing a better way to finish a certain goal when people already know they need motivation and will to get themselves into something and are already trying many ways to get them and struggling at the same time?
Ben Whiley
May 7, 2021 at 9:21 am
Grit is Conscientiousness.
Well done, you have discovered something that already exists and is exhaustively documented.
You have earned the participation trophy.
Jack Shyan Lee
May 7, 2021 at 9:35 am
It’s like anything in life. When you start something, you just objectively suck at it. Only way to get better is to keep going and keep trying.
Ronald Caliva
May 7, 2021 at 11:03 am
With lots of distractive stuffs in our time now the youth must be educated well on how to manage their time effectively instead of keeping themselves on social media or their gadgets they should always take time alone without gadget
Nathan Ngumi
May 7, 2021 at 3:53 pm
Word.
Justin Aeneas
May 7, 2021 at 5:47 pm
So… Those who show perseverance have grit? Those 2 words are synonymous. Those who show grit have perseverance! And there’s ZERO correlation between success and IQ? She implies it, and sounds like she says it, but doesn’t quite bc it’s not true.
For myself, I want to build perseverance. I have been studying brain development for some time, and it doesn’t seem to help with grit. I don’t find this presentation honest or effective.
Fotis Manolopoulos
May 8, 2021 at 1:07 pm
Agree on the first half; second half where she says “you must be willing to fail”, she should know by now that some failures are worth taking the risk for and some best to avoid. Failure should not be used as a general term that applies to everything
homersapien
May 8, 2021 at 4:32 pm
America also has a bloat mindset.
-Wanna supersize it?
candy vore
May 8, 2021 at 6:11 pm
I thought she was nose bleeding
Bob Davenport
May 8, 2021 at 7:08 pm
I hear a lot of people today say that they don’t want kids to fail EVER. That is the reason why many school districts have removed F’s from report cards.
But I’ve learned far more from my failures than my successes. To try and then fail is a very important part of growing and learning.
KC
May 9, 2021 at 11:09 am
When I was in school, I used to pity the people who would work hard everyday, while I aced in every test without studying much, but then Later on, after a few years, I saw my mistake. I realized the people who were gritting everyday, did much better than me in the later years, when I was lacking in the will ti persevere, they were already masters and soon passed me by a long run.
Andy Hughes
May 9, 2021 at 11:34 pm
Jeff Bezos said the same thing.
He used to feel proud of his high grades while growing up but later he realized that he was just lucky he was born with the intellect that brought good grades.
Now, he’s only proud of what he must work hard for.
Jan96106
May 9, 2021 at 12:14 pm
This is a circular definition. Why do some people have grit and not others? How does one develop grit? A person first needs to believe they are capable of doing whatever they set out to do. They have to have confidence. I don’t mean the mindless you can do anything you want to do without even putting in the work, without even trying, without the mental or physical capacity to gain the skills needed. If you don’t believe you can be successful at something, if you don’t believe you are worthy of attaining something, you won’t try hard enough to be sucessful and you will give up at the first sign of failure.
Alex Eucare
May 9, 2021 at 4:37 pm
Well, this lady is about to get CANCELLED by every liberal in the world!
philippe chevereau
May 9, 2021 at 4:46 pm
Tiger mother at its best… so sorry for her environment , skip to the last 30 secs.
Graham Kerr
May 9, 2021 at 8:28 pm
I struggled all the way through school and uni, studying engineering, as I always told I wasn’t cut out for such a math-heavy subject…got a 2:1. Then no job after graduation. 2.5 post graduation, I retaught myself calculus, learned to program and began my own research in distribution networks and battery modelling. Literally yesterday, I got a job offer for a grad scheme. Intelligence and talent only pays dividends if you put in the effort: keep plucking away; continue questioning; take failure in your stride and uphold the belief that things will eventually go your way. It’s not easy, but I’m proud to be the one that had to work than someone who didn’t.
Akshay Mathur
May 9, 2021 at 8:38 pm
But what do you mean by success?
1. Is it your ability to survive in this world
2. Is it your ability to survive and thrive
3. Is it about achieving goals you have set for yourself
4. Is it about achieving goals society thinks are worthy to achieve
5. Is it about achieving self realization and attaining enlightenment.
6. Is it about realizing all of this effort you put was pointless and you should have focused on living, not worrying.
Asian Women Ugly And Spread COVID bat coronavirus
June 6, 2021 at 7:31 pm
Yea, “grit” is important. Tell yourself that when your rich classmates inherit their family company or something
lunarstars
June 7, 2021 at 8:17 am
Your username is terrible. But agreed, and to that I would add that energy is tied to grit. People who are naturally more energetic will stick with things longer because they simply have the ability to do so. A lot of people fail because they’re eating things that take away energy like bread, tortillas, and rice and they’re bodies can’t handle it. So when they start studying and then fall asleep. Growth mindset won’t help with that. A lot of problems require physical solutions, not just another form of positive thinking.
Asian Women Ugly And Spread COVID bat coronavirus
June 7, 2021 at 1:21 pm
@lunarstars The truth is even more terrible, darling. But aren’t people with ADHD more energetic and *can’t* focus on anything? If bread, tortillas and rice don’t give energy then what does?
nicholas schroeder
June 7, 2021 at 12:35 am
Her book Grit is pretty good. But Peak is even better. Applied intensive practice gets you anywhere. But he prepared to work hard over the long haul. The tortoises, not the hares, win in life
Seitan Beats Your Meat
June 7, 2021 at 7:23 am
Why is earning the most money the goal to begin with?! Why is that a marker of “success”? That mindset is a big part of the problem, we need a paradigm shift
Capitalism has ruined us, stop being a mindless consumer. There’s your “win”
sommi
June 7, 2021 at 7:43 am
🧡💛💚💙 too long didnt watch
Carlos W
June 7, 2021 at 8:03 am
Grit comes as a result of ambition
lunarstars
June 7, 2021 at 8:10 am
She fails to mention that it takes energy to have grit, it’s not just having a growth mindset. The body is like an electronic appliance, it won’t work right if it’s not plugged in properly. The body needs energy to keep going and this is often why people give up, because they run out.
That means that you guys need to take care of your health, figure out what diet is good for you, figure out your body weight, sleep right, etc. Otherwise growth mindset won’t help much.
Tash Hashimi
June 7, 2021 at 5:01 pm
What about gravey?
NoTimeLikeThePresent
June 7, 2021 at 7:51 pm
Asking them if they are Gritty or not doesn’t really prove they are. Better would have been some empirical test of grit, some measurement. People saying they think they are is far from empirical proof that they are.
Richard Gonçalves
June 7, 2021 at 9:44 pm
It is like a Kizen in life.
PizzaFan
June 8, 2021 at 1:05 am
Feeling so lazy i couldn’t even finish this video 😞
Pac저 미국인
June 8, 2021 at 2:02 pm
“grit” is basically conscientiousness. It’s NOT the best predictor of life success, IQ is BUT, it is second best and extremely powerful.
T J
June 8, 2021 at 4:30 pm
CRT considers this racist
Dean Bonilla
June 8, 2021 at 5:25 pm
Magnificent. 🙏🏾🌞
S. D. H.
June 8, 2021 at 8:47 pm
In a corrupt, predatory economic system (like what the USA celebrates as the norm, for example) the strongest predictor is being a sociopath & willing to cheat/exploit/lie at any ripe opportunity. Those are the types of people who most often rise to the top of business & politics (they & their select puppets).
Enthusiastic Noob
June 8, 2021 at 9:56 pm
Sadly a lot of this has fallen apart under further research. “Grit” is not measurably different to the trait “conscientiousness” that has been know for decades. It is actually less predictive of life attainment than IQ – or ability to learn, but is still very important.
Powered By Decaf
June 8, 2021 at 11:48 pm
Who would’ve thought that the ability to stick with something helps make people successful. :O
Michael G. Kerr
June 9, 2021 at 2:03 am
I have nothing against grit. Grit is going to get you through army boot camp. It’s going to get you that sale when you need one ‘yes’ out of 100s of cold calls. It will indeed get you a long way in most jobs and pursuits. But for those times in life where you get one shot, to hire the right person, making the right call during negotiation with a key client, or formulating that word in a spelling bee, my experience says high IQ matters more. So if grit is what you have, choose your career appropriately.
Erwin Tan
June 9, 2021 at 10:50 pm
1st world conclusion to a 1st world study.
DDoris
June 10, 2021 at 4:38 am
I agree that “grit” is fundmental but it is built on a foundation of delayed gratification – the ability to sacrifice a bit of “now” for future. Being able to delay gratification is one of the keys to long-term success.
Jainil Patel
June 10, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Just as an anime character once said ” I will keep moving forward until all my enemies are destroyed”
Brett Carter
June 11, 2021 at 1:41 am
Grit – Passion and perseverance for VERY long term goals; sticking to it, day in and day out working REALLY hard for years to make the one thing you want in your future a reality.
dave nani
June 11, 2021 at 2:45 am
so she is 51 yrs old?
Sivian Newton
June 12, 2021 at 7:52 pm
Money is an issue that everyone has for a better and luxurious life, Life was hard for me until I started trading bitcoin and am now earning $20,000 per week
Kimberly Anson
June 12, 2021 at 10:33 pm
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Sterling Pellegrino
June 12, 2021 at 10:33 pm
Someone help out with her contact info, how can I reach out to this broker Mrs Tracy walker.
Wayne Drake
June 12, 2021 at 10:34 pm
You’ll have to contact her on WhatsApp
Wayne Drake
June 12, 2021 at 10:34 pm
+ 1 7 8 6 4 3 4 7 0 2 1
Evelyn Hernandez
June 12, 2021 at 10:34 pm
This kind of information that we don’t get from most youtubers I will get in touch with her right now.
The Flash Fan
June 13, 2021 at 11:03 am
When you prove your grit by watching the 3 minute video, but don’t have a goal to strive towards. Pain.
Robertson Tirado
June 15, 2021 at 1:19 pm
I have grit for 48 years my brown skin in America prevents me from going higher.
Mountain Paddler
June 18, 2021 at 12:31 pm
You are also talking about the Marshmallow test, and the ability to “see” an plan for long term goals.
Wateen Al_sayadi
June 20, 2021 at 1:43 pm
Loved this💜💜