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Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Written by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
Narrated by Meredith Mitchell
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It is not native intelligence or natural talent that makes people excel, say Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval--it's old-fashioned sweat equity and hard work. And that claim is backed up by new research from MacArthur Fellowship Award winner and University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth, among others. Not everyone is blessed with exceptional intelligence, or wins the gene lottery. But the good news is that you can excel beyond your wildest dreams in your career and your personal life--success is within your grasp--through the right attitude and determination.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was actually quite good. Enjoyed it, and it gave me ideas to share with my boys. Thanks.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Where I got the book: my local library. A Strength Training read.Grit, say Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, is all you really need. It’s the great leveler, available to all regardless of age, income, physical ability or IQ.I started the Strength Training readalong group for writers because I wanted to make various aspects of my life stronger, better able to support the weight of a writing career that really wants to be the boss of everything. I chose Grit as the first topic because I was about to go into NaNoWriMo with a 90,000 word goal, so I needed the image of grit in my head. I did NOT need the image of the tightrope walker who starts wobbling when he’s 1,500 feet above the Grand Canyon—that pings my vertigo EVERY time I think about it.The authors define grit as Guts, Resilience, Initiative and Tenacity—see what they did there? Apart from the aforementioned tightrope walker image, you don’t need any of those things to read this book, which is 143 small pages short and mostly made up of stories. Several of those stories are drawn from the authors’ own experiences, building up a New York advertising agency from scratch and so on, and are inevitably self-laudatory.Enemies of grit include 1. the self-esteem movement 2. the false concept of retirement 3. the myth of talent. I kind of agree that the whole self-esteem thing is doing nobody any favors and that retirement is just dumb (I never did want to play golf) but would argue that there is such a thing as being born with a gift. I liked some of the stories, especially the one about James Patterson, but the advertising agency ones not so much. There were some grit-building exercises at the end of each chapter, but I found them a bit too vague. Conclusion: kind of an entry-level self-help book. Not bad, but not great, which sort of destroys their premise.