Grit
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Duckworth: Reaching full potential requires mastering both effort and environment
“The outside game matters, too, because all of that effort pays off more and is more rational in some ecosystems, in some environments, in some cultures, in some places, with some people, and less so in others, and I think if you're gonna achieve your potential…”
Gurley: Angela Duckworth Would Weight Passion Far Above Perseverance Today
“We had a chance working on the book to talk to Angela Duckworth, and 10 years after she released Grit, which said it's 50% perseverance and 50% passion, she said if she could do it over again, she'd wait passion way more Highly than perseverance because we've …”
Kennedy: Grit, not athletic talent, predicts success in military special operations
“There's not a predictor of, like, this guy did jiu-jitsu, or he was a wrestler, or he played water polo. Like, the best swimmers in the world go to Bud's, and they bump, they bail out just like everybody else. The freak D-one athlete that played football, like…”
Duckworth: Over-relying on scientific one-liners leads to overestimating single concepts
“What happens is that the simplification really does have a dark side. We're like, oh, what about all the things that people are going to misunderstand? And in particular, the thing that we worry about most is that when you only metabolize one one-liner, then y…”
Duckworth: Grit is not enough without making your situation an ally
“Grit is not enough. You must have your situation as your ally.”
Lanng: Grit alone gets the job done but does not bring happiness
“Grid alone don't make you happy. It just make, it just get the job done, right? It just get you to the other side.”
Duke: Grit and quitting are the exact same decision, not virtues or vices
“We think of grit as a virtue and quit as a vice, but that's not true. They're the exact same decision. By definition, if you choose to stick to something, you're choosing not to quit it. And if you choose to quit something, You're choosing not to stick with it…”
Thomas Tull warns founders against maintaining failing theses just to show grit
“You can't just keep banging your head against the wall just to say, I'm showing grit. I'm being persistent.”
Ronnie Lott: Relying on Technology Prevents People From Practicing Grit
“When you think about using technology, you don't practice grit. You don't practice a characteristic that allows you to be able to kind of overcome something.”
Duckworth: Teaching grit cannot fix severe systemic educational barriers
“If you are asking questions about, like, you know, underachievement and, you know, closing the achievement gap, etc., and you know, the antidote that's offered is like, well, we should teach kids about growth mindset and grit and agency. Then you might be over…”
Duckworth: Young people struggle more with direction than determination
“And I find that many, many young people are struggling much more with the direction in their life than the determinations. That they need to bring to that pursuit.”
Duke: Sunk cost fallacy is the dark side of grit
“Grit is such a great topic, and, you know, sticking to things that are hard and not getting kind of stuck in local minima is a really, really important feature of people who are successful. But the question is, like, you know, there's a dark side to grit, righ…”