This is a great story from Angela Duckworth's Grit about West Point Military Academy, which has one of the most rigorous admissions processes in the US. Each year, 14,000 applicants are winnowed down to a just 1,200. And despite this careful admissions process, 1 out of 5 cadets will drop out, most during their first summer in a training program called Beast.
The Beast training regimen is ridiculously restricted and exhausting – mentally, physically, and emotionally. So what's the difference between people who make it through and people who don't? Duckworth argues that it isn't talent, it's grit.
She describes the gritty as being "dogged in their pursuits." A gritty person is so hardworking that "in their own eyes, they were never good enough. They were the opposite of complacent. And yet, in a very real sense, they were satisfied being unsatisfied."
So what can you take away from this?
If you're currently trying to succeed at something and are having trouble, just know that it's not all about talent. You CAN be good enough, you CAN succeed. You have to be gritty. You have to work hard even when thing seem bleak and there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
Because it's not that the light isn't there. It's just that you can't see it yet.
Submitted April 08, 2018 at 11:25PM by singhshaan https://ift.tt/2IBhoWt
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