Grit Research Paper

Why are some people successful and some people not? This question has been thrown around for decades and yet no one could pinpoint the exact reason some people became rich and famous and some were stuck in terrible situations that they could not escape. It all eventually boiled down to one word… Grit. This theory created in 1907 by William James, an American philosopher and psychologist, is now the focal point of many philosophers and scientists thoughts. One psychologist in particular Angela Duckworth, now the so called “ambassador of
Grit” , was very inspired by this theory and made it her life’s work. But is grit real or is it a combination of many different qualities in someone’s personality. My goal is to explore what grit it means to …show more content…
Grit is something people only hear about from high school football coaches. It is not an normally occurring phenomenon that register with us on a daily basis but our grit could be affecting us everyday. Did you sleep in an extra half an hour and get to work late? Did you finish that paper that is due the night before or did you get it done early? These are both examples of how our individual amount of grit can affect us. If you got to work on time, maybe you have a higher grit score than the person that didn’t or if you got the paper done the night before, maybe you still have a higher grit score than the person that did it early. No that was not a mistake in the last sentence. That's the interesting thing about grit. It’s not really a catch all type of thing. The reason you could get a higher score by procrastinating is because you were determined to get it done and succeeded even if it was the night before. It’s really up to you at that point. Does that make you grittier or are you less gritty for doing it? let me establish one thing. The readings we were assigned are just fluff pieces for
Duckworth’s book. The authors of these two articles very rarely make their own opinions