Grit + External Factors versus College College, University, or any form of post secondary education. The common place of higher education is society is seen as a crucial part of an individual’s progress to achieving their life’s goals in whatever it may be. However many fall short on achieving their college diploma due to lack of ‘grit’; “Sticking with things over the very long term until you master them.” as Duckworth notes, or perhaps external factors that cause a halt on pursuing further education. In any of the circumstances, each has their faults that can be attributed to a lack of grit or simply life took over. If you truly want to attain a college diploma, you will strive & muster through in order to receive it even if your entry …show more content…
High school is not college & vice versa, both however are a form of receiving an education yet on different levels. Some excel in high school simply because it may have come easy for them so once posed with the challenge of learning a concept doesn’t come naturally they may stall out and shut down. There’s also the factors of their study habits in high school worked with their assignments then but in college, it harms them such as procrastination or giving work that’s good enough to pass with but their grade remains stagnant at a C level. Their grit isn’t there if they are only half-heartedly doing the assignments at hand & are only treating it as something less. On the other hand, college is not high school so you may have been able to take seven courses in high school but for college being considered a full time student is taking four classes. The individual may have blindly gone in and taken more classes that were of a rigorous study and upon finding out on the heavy workload that they were failing, unable to keep up with the demands of the course. The latter case was being overly confident in the skills the individual had in high school & finding out too late that they were taking too