In the world of grit, the ideas of love, kindness, thoughtfulness, courage, honesty, integrity, and justice are rarely discussed, nor is the idea of epigenetic inheritance. In her book Grit, Angela Duckworth reconciles the points that someone can be a “gritty villain” and that “altruistic purpose is not an absolute requirement of grit.”22 Therefore, she concludes that interest, purpose, and hope are needed for gritty people to do good in the world. She argues that grit depends largely on hope: Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can
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