Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

by Angela Duckworth

It was this combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special. In a word, they had grit.

Many of us, it seems, quit what we start far too early and far too often. Even more than the effort a gritty person puts in on a single day, what matters is that they wake up the next day, and the next, ready to get on that treadmill and keep going.

“You’re not practicing piano to be Mozart.”