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the stubborn refusal to quit that outperforms talent on every long road
means steadfast courage and resolve that keeps you going through hardship, especially over the long haul
from From Old English 'greot,' meaning sand, dust, or gravel — the same coarse stuff you'd feel underfoot. By the early 19th century, Americans began using 'grit' figuratively for the gritty, grinding toughness in a person's character, as if true backbone were made of the same hard, gritty material that won't wear smooth. The literal sense (gritty particles) and the figurative one (gritty determination) have walked together ever since.
- sandy origin
- Originally meant tiny stones and coarse sand
- measured trait
- Psychologist Angela Duckworth built a famous grit scale
- beats IQ
- Predicts cadet success better than test scores
- true grit
- John Wayne won his only Oscar playing it
- teeth thing
- To grit teeth dates back centuries of clenched resolve
chris hadfield's spacewalk — canadian astronaut completed 2,330 orbits around earth during his career despite multiple setbacks and training failures
oprah winfrey's rise — born into poverty in rural mississippi in 1954, overcame abuse and became world's first self-made female billionaire