Grit

Grit is overall a book about hard work and how you should never give up. It opens up about how the author Angela Ducksworth wins an award called the MacArthur award (p.29). She wins this award after her father always tells her how terrible and underachieving she was all of her life. This is the…

That urge that one develops to enable them go through a lot of challenges and distraction just to come and persevere and finally they achieve their goals, this can be summarized by the term Grit. Duckworth tries to focus on one’s personal characters’ traits that she refers to it as grit. She goes further to…

What am I doing with my life, in high school? What do I believe about myself, what do I believe about others? What is my future? All these questions at some point will be asked by any given person, this semester we have looked at these questions and been challenged to think critically about these…

Many people including myself, once believed that the smarter someone was, the more likely it was for them to become successful. Unlike these people and myself, Dr. Duckworth believes that someone’s IQ nor talent has anything to do with their chances of becoming successful. Dr. Duckworth was a seventh-grade math teacher in Chicago who noticed…