In the article “The Significance of Grit” Dr.Duckworth is interviewed and asked numerous questions. The interview goes on to ask what qualities one needs to be and what it means to be gritty. She first starts by explaining
the difference of being gritty and being resilient by expressing how if you continue to strive to achieve your long term goals and taking failure for the better one is gritty. She further explains that the inverse relationship between talent and grit are often confused not always meaning that all talented people are un-gritty. Dr. Duckworth concludes this interview by explaining all the steps it took her to finally learn to be gritty and how young people shouldn’t have the mindset that being gritty is inherited, but is a learned trait. When she expresses what one needs to have passion she further explains how you need to have a deep love for the goal you are trying to accomplish or there is no purpose of trying to achieve it. As she goes on she explains how stamina falls into the picture of being a gritty person. She starts by stating how life should be like “Running a marathon and less like a sprint” meaning that goals take time to reach and we need to learn to be disciplined in achieving the.
Unlike Dr.Duckworth I believe that you need to have a great mindset to be gritty you have to believe you can accomplish anything before even beginning any task. I also believe you have to be optimistic to be a gritty person as well because you have to be confident in all you do to be a gritty person. With confidence you also have to be resilient. Resilience is an important characteristic to have when trying to be gritty it’s good to know how to persevere when you fail.
Everybody, such as how Dr. Duckworth and I have many different traits for the same word, perceives grit differently. I see the word for what it is nothing more but Dr. Duckworth see it for much more than I, she digs deeper to get a better understanding of it.