While researching texts written about how can a person learn to be “grittier”. I found a few authors who publish articles and a book about how you can become being “gritty”. Gritty people tend to stick to their goals regardless of failures. According, to Amy Chu, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Yeager people can be “gritty” by strictness, threats, practicing and reaching their goal. These authors explained how a person learn to be “gritty”.
Lulu learned how to be “gritty” by her mother threatening and being strict until she plays the piano perfectly. In the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua. The Chinese mother forces her daughter Lulu to play the piano it was difficult for her to play. Lulu was impatience because she couldn’t …show more content…
After countless tedious tasks upon developing grit, you also acquire self-regulation. With self-regulation and a self-transcendent purpose for learning students can overcome harmful psychological barriers and anxieties. For instance, in the article as stated in study 1 of Boring but Important: A Self-Transcendent Purpose of Learning Fosters Academic Self-Regulation David Yeager said, “those who expressed more of a self-transcendent purpose for learning as they were leaving high school also viewed tedious academic activities as more personally meaningful and both reported and behaviorally display greater academic self-regulation” (566). This quote shows that when students do tedious task they develop self-regulation which helps students to become “grittier”. Another example that shows self- transcendence is when they ask students to rate on a five- point skill, to see the motive if they were going to college. Yeager stated, I want to learn things that will me make a positive impact on the world” (562). This quote shows that students want to go to college so they could make personal progress on what they want to achieve. Students also overcome any challenge by setting the goal and doing it so that makes them become
Lulu learned how to be “gritty” by her mother threatening and being strict until she plays the piano perfectly. In the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua. The Chinese mother forces her daughter Lulu to play the piano it was difficult for her to play. Lulu was impatience because she couldn’t …show more content…
After countless tedious tasks upon developing grit, you also acquire self-regulation. With self-regulation and a self-transcendent purpose for learning students can overcome harmful psychological barriers and anxieties. For instance, in the article as stated in study 1 of Boring but Important: A Self-Transcendent Purpose of Learning Fosters Academic Self-Regulation David Yeager said, “those who expressed more of a self-transcendent purpose for learning as they were leaving high school also viewed tedious academic activities as more personally meaningful and both reported and behaviorally display greater academic self-regulation” (566). This quote shows that when students do tedious task they develop self-regulation which helps students to become “grittier”. Another example that shows self- transcendence is when they ask students to rate on a five- point skill, to see the motive if they were going to college. Yeager stated, I want to learn things that will me make a positive impact on the world” (562). This quote shows that students want to go to college so they could make personal progress on what they want to achieve. Students also overcome any challenge by setting the goal and doing it so that makes them become