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August 24 - August 30, 2024
Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”
“Eighty percent of success in life is showing up.”
when you don’t come back the next day—when you permanently turn your back on a commitment—your effort plummets to zero. As a consequence, your skills stop improving, and at the same time, you stop producing anything with whatever skills you have.
Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn’t. With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.
there are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time—longer than most people imagine. And then, you know, you’ve got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people. Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
year. To be gritty is to resist complacency. “Whatever it takes, I want to improve!” is a refrain of all paragons of grit, no matter their particular interest, and no matter how excellent they already are.
What ripens passion is the conviction that your work matters. For most people, interest without purpose is nearly impossible to sustain for a lifetime.
There are no gains without pains.
“It’s about hard work. When it’s not fun, you do what you need to do anyway. Because when you achieve results, it’s incredibly fun. You get to enjoy the ‘Aha’ at the end, and that is what drags you along a lot of the way.”
At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.
When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can’t be found, you guarantee they won’t.
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t—you’re right.”
when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them. You need to step back, analyze them, and learn from them. But you also need to stay optimistic.”
You have nothing to lose by trying.”
if I try, I have a chance. If I never try, then I have no chance at all.”
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, create a gritty culture.
if you’re around a lot of people who are gritty, you’re going to act grittier.”
thinking of yourself as someone who is able to overcome tremendous adversity often leads to behavior that confirms that self-conception.
“Failures are going to happen, and how you deal with them may be the most important thing in whether you succeed. You need fierce resolve. You need to take responsibility. You call it grit. I call it fortitude.”
“Have a fierce resolve in everything you do.”
“Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity.”
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“Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.
Must you work seventy hours per week to be gritty? No. But when you really love what you do, you might find that you want to. You might feel, as I do, that nearly everything you see, hear, read, or experience is in some way relevant to your work. You might find that you don’t want to take a vacation from your calling.
