Having Faith in Our Dreams Will Develop Our Grit
English is my second language. I have good skills in speaking, reading, and writing. I know and memorize a reasonable amount of vocabulary, but this is the first time I heard the word GRIT. Never heard of it before. I heard it for the first time in the short video I watched, “Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit”. Every culture has its own special ways to encourage the individual how to be a determined and not to give up when facing a hardship, and this short video is talking about the same thing. So, I searched the word GRIT in the internet. I found that, for years, many researchers had spent a great deal of their life researching and discussing this concept, GRIT. From the readings and from the websites on the internet I understood that GRIT is, and …show more content…
How we can achieve our goal? One will say I’m smart and talented; I will succeed. Ok, you can solve this complicated equation in math, or you can easily write an essay about this subject in biology. But what if your assignment is to solve twenty equations plus the essay about biology at the same time? Just being smart will not help. You need to spend couple hours to do this assignment. What if this has repeated the next day and the day after? What if the two assignments became three beside other tasks. Am I going to continue? Yes, I have to. Otherwise I will lose the goal I set when I first enrolled in college. We all have our roles in life, as husband or a father, a brother, sister, worker, an employer; we are committed to accomplish this role. So being a student in college is one more role we chose for our life, we added more burdens on our shoulders. Choosing this new role and accepting more burdens is a determination, a perseverance. The continuing hard work in college, succeeding in all tests, submitting all assignments in time, and graduating all this is determination, perseverance,
English is my second language. I have good skills in speaking, reading, and writing. I know and memorize a reasonable amount of vocabulary, but this is the first time I heard the word GRIT. Never heard of it before. I heard it for the first time in the short video I watched, “Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit”. Every culture has its own special ways to encourage the individual how to be a determined and not to give up when facing a hardship, and this short video is talking about the same thing. So, I searched the word GRIT in the internet. I found that, for years, many researchers had spent a great deal of their life researching and discussing this concept, GRIT. From the readings and from the websites on the internet I understood that GRIT is, and …show more content…
How we can achieve our goal? One will say I’m smart and talented; I will succeed. Ok, you can solve this complicated equation in math, or you can easily write an essay about this subject in biology. But what if your assignment is to solve twenty equations plus the essay about biology at the same time? Just being smart will not help. You need to spend couple hours to do this assignment. What if this has repeated the next day and the day after? What if the two assignments became three beside other tasks. Am I going to continue? Yes, I have to. Otherwise I will lose the goal I set when I first enrolled in college. We all have our roles in life, as husband or a father, a brother, sister, worker, an employer; we are committed to accomplish this role. So being a student in college is one more role we chose for our life, we added more burdens on our shoulders. Choosing this new role and accepting more burdens is a determination, a perseverance. The continuing hard work in college, succeeding in all tests, submitting all assignments in time, and graduating all this is determination, perseverance,