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Why You Should Build Grit in Your Life
How the power to overcome can help you and how to create it.
How bad do you want things? Quite bad? Pretty bad? Real bad? Can’t control how much you do?
Wanting something so bad you can’t control yourself is a simple definition of what grit is.
However, as author of the book “Grit”, Angela Duckworth said, “Grit isn’t just working incredibly hard. That’s only part of it.”.
But more precisely:
“Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you’re willing to stay loyal to it.”
Just like a relationship, while falling in love is crucial to actually start, what really matters, in the long run, is staying in love.
Grit is a combination of Passion and Perseverance. We could also simply say it is equivalent to Obsession but I personally believe obsession goes even further, adding the aspect of “crazy” in it (in a good sense).
However, you can’t be fully obsessed with something until you’ve built a gritty character, so let’s start with that.
