“Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort. It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.” Angela Duckworth

1. GRIT TO GREAT
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2. “Humans are creatures of habit. If
you quit when things get tough, it
gets that much easier to quit the
next time. On the other hand. If you
force yourself to push through it, the
grit begins to grow in you.”
Travis Bradberry

3. Companies went
on a war for talent
• How was talent defined?
• Sharp strategic thinking,
• Emotional maturity,
• Entrepreneurial instincts,
• The ability to deliver results.
Amongst other
things…

4. Think of your
best people,
do they:
• 1) Get distracted by new ideas and projects?
• 2) Get discouraged when they encounter
setbacks?
• 3) Finish what they started?
• 4) Maintain their focus on projects till
completion?

5. Story of Newton
We all know the story of Newton and the
apple but… Even if Newton started thinking
about gravity in 1666, it took him years of
painstaking work before he understood it. He
filled entire vellum notebooks with his
scribbles and spent weeks recording the exact
movements of a pendulum (it made, on
average, 1,512 ticks per hour).
The discovery of gravity, in other words,
wasn’t a flash of insight – it required decades
of effort, which is one of the reasons Newton
didn’t publish his theory until 1687, in the
“Principia”. Lehrer - August 2, 2009

6. Angela Duckworth
University of Pennsylvania
• « Why are some people more
successful than others? »
• « Talent is the common answer »
• « One characteristic emerged as
a significant predictor of success
… It was GRIT »
• « Many talented individuals do
not follow through their
commitments »

7. GRIT and
Resilience
Grit
• “mental toughness and
courage” (Merriam
Webster)
• “perseverance and
passion for long term
goals” (Duckworth et.
Al, 2007)
• “the tendency to pursue
long-term goals with
sustained zeal and hard
work” (Von Culin et al.,
2014)
Resiliency
• an ability to recover
from or easily adjust to
misfortune or change”
(Merriam Webster)
• This word comes from a
Latin verb resilere,
which means “to spring
back, to rebound”
(Merriam Webster)
• Psychological research
has shown resiliency is
closely linked to
optimism.

8. What is GRIT
• Perseverance and passion for long-term
goals
• Being gritty means:
• Finishing what you start
• Staying committed to your goals
• Working hard even after experiencing
failure or when you feel like quitting
• Staying the course for more than a few
weeks.
• When we demonstrate grit or are
described as gritty, it is because we have
had the resilience to push ourselves over,
through, around, and sometimes under
obstacles.

10. Grit
Characteristics
Self-control
• Persistence
• Tenacity
• Resilience
• Hard work
• Delayed gratification
Perseverance
• Open-mindedness
• Optimism
• Conscientiousness
• Social intelligence
• Courage

11. How Important Grit
• Ability alone does not bring about
success in any field
• Grit is more predictive than IQ in
academic performance
• Smarter students may be less
gritty
• Research at West Point Military
Academy
• National Spelling Bee Research

12. How do people
learn to do this?
• According to Angela Duckworth’s
(2007) research, grit is a question of
nature and nurture, not one or the
other. For people to develop grit, she
says, they need to cultivate a growth
mindset.

13. Cultivating Grit:
Growth Mindset
• Growth Mindset – Carol Dweck
• You can develop your intelligence – it is
NOT fixed.
• Reframe how you experience setbacks –
focus on the effort and not on the ability.
• Receiving or giving praise purely for
intelligence actually has been shown to be
far less effective in helping students cope
with setbacks than praising for effort.
• Craving challenges, not fearing failure.
• Building resiliency.

15. Growth and Fix
Mindset
Growth Mindset
• Value learning overlooking smart or being right
• Believe in effort as a virtue
• Are resilient in the face of setback
• Welcome new challenges
Fixed Mindset
• Value looking smart over the process of
learning
• Believe effort indicates low ability
• View setbacks as evidence of inability
• Less likely to welcome challenges

16. GROWTH
MINDSET
“believing your qualities are carved in stone,” while a growth
mindset is “the belief that your basic qualities are things you can
cultivate through your efforts” (Dweck, 2016, pp. 6-7).

17. Growth
Mindset’s
Characteristics
• Embrace challenges
• Persist in the face of setbacks
• See effort as the path to mastery
• Learn from criticism
• Find lessons and inspiration in the success of others
(Dweck, 2016, p. 245).

18. 5 Real-Life Examples
of Grit

19. You are in your first year on a wrestling team, and you
are learning about the sport. Every time you attend a
dual or tournament, you lose your matches. Rather than
quit, you return to every practice, drill, and go to the
next dual or tournament.

20. You are learning a difficult piece of music. It has complicated finger
movements, and you are considered an “average” musician by your
instructors. Many of your peers perform with more grace and confidence
than you. Instead of giving up, you practice daily. You are deliberate in
your efforts. Over several weeks, your finger movements become
increasingly more fluid as you practice.

21. You have always had an interest in learning a martial art, but you are
40+-years-old, and your body is not flexible. Other students are faster,
stronger, and more flexible than you. You never miss training sessions,
practice the techniques, and learn to adapt them to your body while
also increasing your stamina, speed, and accuracy. After several months
you earn your first rank toward a black belt.

22. You have never been a good artist. Your idea of drawing a
person is a stick figure. Determined to learn how to draw a life-
like person, you take classes at a local art school. After a few
months of consistent drawing, you can create a self-portrait.

23. You have always wanted to learn another language, but believe you are too old, and
it will take too long to become fluent. You see a language course promoting fluency
in three months, and it is geared toward people who are not natural language
learners. You think this might work, so you join the program. You become involved
with the active online group, complete the lessons (called missions by the course
creator), and post them for others to review. The end-of-course challenge is to have
a 15-minute conversation in your target language. On the final day of your three-
month study, you post your video.

25. “Where have
you
demonstrated
grit in your life?
Feel free to
share an
example in the
comment
section.”

26. 10 Ways to Develop
Grit and Resilience
Building resilience and grit varies person-
to-person and is influenced by one’s
culture. Still, the APA offers ten ways to
build resilience that just about anyone can
do.

28. 1 to 5
• If you are not a social person, becoming more social,
i.e., purposely connecting with others, can help.
• Get control over how you respond to the adverse
events you experience.
• The Greek philosopher Heraclitus gets credit for saying,
“The only constant in life is change.” Get used to it.
Sometimes a goal needs to be abandoned because it is
no longer attainable. The inability to accept things that
one cannot change is like continuing to spin a chainless
wheel.
• Apply the Kaizen principle to your goals. Start with the
absolute smallest component that relates to the larger,
long-term goal. As Walt Disney famously said, “We keep
moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new
things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps
leading us down new paths.”
• Commit to making decisions when you find yourself in a
tough situation. There is no room for wishy-washy
actions.

30. 6 to 10
• We can learn a lot about ourselves when we struggle through
a bad experience. How have our relationships grown? How
have we gained strength or perspective?
• Forget negative self-talk. Trust that you know yourself better
than anyone else, and you have the intelligence and power to
make forthright decisions. You can solve problems as they
arise.
• Bad things will happen. Try to think about them from a
lifelong perspective. Draw a line on a paper representing the
day you were born to the age you believe you will die. Mark
off significant life events, positive and negative along that
line. Place a line on that paper that represents your current
age. Put a dot on that line to mark the current adversity. In
the grand scheme of your life, how significant is that dot?
When you look back at past events, how much or how little
did they affect your life now?
• Practice optimism. This is not a denial of the bad. It is an
acknowledgment of the good and what is possible in your life.
• Practice self-compassion, get some exercise, learn something
new, and spend time laughing.

31. Grit Scale
• Duckworth created the Grit Scale so you can discover how
gritty you are. It is a ten-question, Likert-type survey. You rate
your level of agreement with each statement. Your grit score
ranges from 0.0 to 5.0. The higher the score, the grittier you
are
• Full Grit Scale:
https://sasupenn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9H6iT93yv4rozeB

32. Fostering Grit
1. Establish the environment (learning is trial and
error)
2. Set the expectations (identify levels of
frustration)
3. Teach the vocabulary (e.g. perseverance,
resilience)
4. Create the frustration (at an appropriate level)
5. Monitor the experience (chart it)
6. Reflect and learn (find ways for students to tell
you how they have grown and tell them how
you have been challenged and are growing too)
From Thomas Hoerr’s

33. “Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s
not just stamina in your effort. It’s
also stamina in your direction,
stamina in your interests. If you are
working on different things but all of
them very hard, you’re not really
going to get anywhere. You’ll never
become an expert.”
Angela Duckworth

34. Learning and Giving
for Better Indonesia
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