When it comes to GRIT, growth is someone’s ability to better themselves. Not being satisfied with your intelligence, or physical abilities. Embrace your lack of knowledge because even if you are an expert at one thing there will always be new concepts or designs. You should communicate or even teach others what you know because they may have a different perspective that you have never thought of before. I scored a 74 on the growth section of my GRIT Gauge which was right on par with the average. To improve my growth I plan on stepping back from areas in my life try to look at the big picture. I want to look not only at weak areas but strong areas as well. Talk to other people and ask how they accomplish a task. Perhaps their approach is better
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In my experience, robustness is the ability to not get discouraged when something doesn’t go the way you thought or hoped it would. When I think of robustness I imagine the scene from the movie Rocky Balboa (2007) where Sylvester Stallone is talking to his son in the street. In this scene he says, “it ain 't about how hard you hit. It 's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That 's how winning is done!” This is exactly what robustness means to me. Robustness is about not getting down on yourself or making excuses, but rather taking responsibility for whatever set back you encountered and keep striving towards your goal. I ended up with at middle of the road 65 robustness score. This will be the most important area of the GRIT gauge for me and my classmates. I made mistakes last semester that I need to take responsibility for and have a strong robustness ability to move forward with my educational …show more content…
I learned that my note taking abilities in class were far below where they should have been. I always took notes but they were so unorganized that I might as well have not taken them at all. Now I know how to utilize different types of notes for different situations and classes. Secondly, the tool of time management. You would think that from prior military service that I would be on top of everything but once I got to school I quickly learned that wasn’t the case. Now I keep a daily planner that I would lose my mind if I lost. I bring it with me nearly everywhere that I go and write down any deadlines or any other information that I need to remember. Lastly, the fact that I have my goals written down has changed my perspective dramatically. They are written down in the front of my planner where I can see them every day. They serve as a small reminder to keep striving and using my GRIT abilities to get closer to them. I believe that I have not hit a dead end in my pursuit of a higher education, but that it is only another obstacle I have to overcome, and by utilizing all of the areas of GRIT I can
In my experience, robustness is the ability to not get discouraged when something doesn’t go the way you thought or hoped it would. When I think of robustness I imagine the scene from the movie Rocky Balboa (2007) where Sylvester Stallone is talking to his son in the street. In this scene he says, “it ain 't about how hard you hit. It 's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That 's how winning is done!” This is exactly what robustness means to me. Robustness is about not getting down on yourself or making excuses, but rather taking responsibility for whatever set back you encountered and keep striving towards your goal. I ended up with at middle of the road 65 robustness score. This will be the most important area of the GRIT gauge for me and my classmates. I made mistakes last semester that I need to take responsibility for and have a strong robustness ability to move forward with my educational …show more content…
I learned that my note taking abilities in class were far below where they should have been. I always took notes but they were so unorganized that I might as well have not taken them at all. Now I know how to utilize different types of notes for different situations and classes. Secondly, the tool of time management. You would think that from prior military service that I would be on top of everything but once I got to school I quickly learned that wasn’t the case. Now I keep a daily planner that I would lose my mind if I lost. I bring it with me nearly everywhere that I go and write down any deadlines or any other information that I need to remember. Lastly, the fact that I have my goals written down has changed my perspective dramatically. They are written down in the front of my planner where I can see them every day. They serve as a small reminder to keep striving and using my GRIT abilities to get closer to them. I believe that I have not hit a dead end in my pursuit of a higher education, but that it is only another obstacle I have to overcome, and by utilizing all of the areas of GRIT I can