What affects your ability to achieve your goal.

Beyond IQ , talent, and whatever else has any kind of effect on anything, what most affects your ability to achieve your goals is grit.

Grit is a combination of passion and perseverance, a belief that failure can be overcome. It’s a willingness to conquer challenges, instead of avoid them.

The only person that can really push you a little bit further in life is yourself.

Grit is both a trait and a skill.

The good new is, you can cultivate or better still grow your grit. It’s a skill that can be learned and practiced over time.

Grit is associated with perseverance, resilience, ambition, and the need for achievement. It involves maintaining goal focused effort for extended periods of time.

Grit says, “I’ve got this.”

You can develop your capacity for grit. Your response to a challenging situation is more important the obstacle you face.

Ryan Holiday says “obstacle is the way”. And you need grit to push through the obstacle every time you face a challenge.

Dr. Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, is the best-known researcher of grit, and she defines Grit as: “working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failures, adversity, and plateaus in progress.”

Tenacity matters so greatly because, as she explains, “effort counts twice.”

The emerging science of grit is teaching us a lot about why some people redouble their efforts when the rest of us are heading for the door.

The ability to stick with and pursue a goal over a long period is an important indicator of achieving anything worthwhile in life.

..... to be continued