the.com/grittiness
the refusal to quit dressed up as a personality trait.
means The quality of having courage and stubborn perseverance through hardship — or, more literally, the texture of being full of tiny hard particles.
from From "grit," an Old English word (greot) for sand, gravel, or small stones — the literal scratchy stuff between your teeth. By the 19th century, English speakers had ground the physical sense into a figurative one: a person with "grit" had the same coarse, unyielding hardness as a fistful of gravel. Add "-y" and "-ness," and the sandpaper becomes a virtue.
- predicts success
- Angela Duckworth's research links it to achievement
- beats talent
- sustained effort outperforms raw ability over time
- texture twin
- the word doubles as physical roughness underfoot
- measurable
- a 12-item scale quantifies your stubbornness
manchester united 1968 — won european cup with working-class players from industrial england, epitomized by roy keane's later captaincy era
mirna valerio — the fat girl hiking: overweight woman completing 1,200-mile pacific crest trail despite constant online ridicule
miners' strike 1984-85 — british coal miners endured year-long strike against thatcher's pit closures, communities sustained on solidarity