Summary of “ The Five Characteristics of Grit”
“The characteristics of Grit-- How many do you have?” by Margaret M. Perlis, Contributor is an article about how students have grown soft and has lost Grit which is the successful key in someone's life. The article, talks about the importance of hard work and perseverance against failure and low self- esteem. Margaret M. Perlis analyzes the TED talk of Professor Duckworth. The comparison of the definition of the word grit from the dictionary and the understanding of professor Duckworth as a “ a firmness of character “ which is a strong character in human life and help us to have the willing to do what is important and right, in others make us gritter. However, Margaret doesn’t agree with idea that perseverance and passion for long term goals can be a solution in someone's life, because she believe as humans we are different and each of us has to
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Grit has five important characteristics that help to develop and to fight against the soft growth. For someone to fight it, as human we should be able to have the five characteristics of Grit such as Courage, Conscientiousness: Achievement Oriented vs.Dependable , Long- Term Goals and Endurance: Follow Through, Resilience: Optimism ,Confidence, and Creativity, Excellence vs Perfection. Each of those key points are important facts about Grit in our life and it also describes each of them as keys of success. As it placed, Courage as one of keys because it play one of the important role in our daily life. With Courage we are able to go forward with evrythings in our life using perseverance and Achievement to make it to the goal game.To have the ability of being grittier, humans should be able to have perseverance and long term goal just like Professor Duckworth said. To be grittiest, you should be to able to have the desire to succeed and to go