Due to the mind-body connection, eating more insoluble fibre and having to feel like Stonehenge is being arranged in your rectum will increase your mental grit too.
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Due to the mind-body connection, eating more insoluble fibre and having to feel like Stonehenge is being arranged in your rectum will increase your mental grit too.
I have so much grit. So much grit that I have trouble understanding other people. They sometimes seem so cowardly to me, or dumb. I'm ruthless when I set my mind on a goal and I keep at it until I get it. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, in fact in some ways I'm plain stupid. But I know I'm a genius in other aspects. I have a strong understanding of human nature. I can feel certain things... like in the stock market I can feel the supply and demand, that's how I made 700% last year. It's like I dance with the market or something.
All of my success is attributed to grit. If you aren't being challenged then you are doing something wrong. And I always make sure I'm challenging myself. I also make sure that I always think for myself. When people say "you're supposed to do it this way" I always ask "why?". And when I'm doing something my own way I always ask "why the fuck not?".
Pretty much...social skills might even be more the deciding factor than ability or confidence, which seems to be a constant source of frustration for the gifted but socially awkward types.
It actually made me a bit angry that my grades started going up after dropping in for office hours a few times. See, I don't think it was because I was doing anything drastically differently, per se, but because the TAs liked me after that and probably felt guilty marking me down since I had a face to them from that point forward, and wasn't just a Student ID No. and free-floating name.
And don't get me started on the rampant friends-procuring-friends-jobs phenomenon.
What say what and I were wondering about, though, was the factors that go into a person's resilience, to what extent "grit" is innate.
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It depends I think.
Someone could have grit on feeding the hungry african children...that is a succes too.
But I think I understand that the lady in the video talks about personal succes, which I don't think is bad, its just there are some many people and so many views on this. For example, some people don't want succes, they just want to make something significant in their life, something that matters to them. Others want to be always on the top, no matter the top is subjective, they jsut have to be there. Its complicated really, at least for me.
Why they don't make some videos on how to find your passion or your desire and fight for it? Because many people think there is one way only, one path of succes, and all the motivational books talk about this. It doesn't matter to them the vocation, its just to get there, to 'shine' in glory.
I see it everything as is been sell to people, a image of succes. The question is, are this people that have succes really happy?
But I don't even know what I'm talking . Its just that I find it hard to believe everything. I must come to my own conclusion.
From my experience, while grit (perseverance) is an important factor, there is no point in continually wringing from a towel that has no water left in it. This calls for insight and reflection as well.
In the past, I have stubbornly struggled upriver for a long time. In contrast to the video’s perspective of keeping to commitments, sometimes, you need the maturity to change/ adapt your goals and direction because you’re not gonna achieve that fantastic, initial goal you put up a waterfall (though this impossible goal-setting might be more prominent with idealistic personalities...)
Some gather the 'tools' they need to use to beat themselves from yesterday, quicker than others (this is my preferred definition of success), but to answer the OP question, I’m not too sure if grit & insight is innate or learnt. It is probably a mixture of both. ~
I agree strongly with this. I think we also have to be realistic and know our limitations. It doesn't make sense to keep going at a goal that's not gonna work or materialize. At some point, some may need to tell themselves to let that goal go, and try something else. Doesn't make them a failure. So, yeah, insight and reflection is important to this process.
I agree strongly with this. I think we also have to be realistic and know our limitations. It doesn't make sense to keep going at a goal that's not gonna work or materialize. At some point, some may need to tell themselves to let that goal go, and try something else. Doesn't make them a failure. So, yeah, insight and reflection is important to this process.
going out and making your face be known, building those networks, and getting those connections....I think that is so huge in success!
I can definitely see levels of testosterone, serotonin, and dopamine potentially playing a role in these things.
Why?
Ur description of urself sounds like ur on fucking steroids bro
your description of urself sounds like you're on birth control
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People seem to have a problem with limits. The world is full of boundaries and limits. That's life. Nothing is wrong with realizing this and accepting it. You can't always have everything you want. That's ok. Sometimes, you just have to realize the difference between what's possible and what's probable. If I want to be successful, I'd rather go with the probable. You can't keep telling someone to fight at something that just isn't going to work no matter how hard they push and fight to keep going. After a while, they'll feel ridiculous and frustrated. Having achievable goals is better than chasing after fantastical dreams that will never come true. If I'm going to apply grit, it may as well be in something that will likely pan out than putting effort into something that won't be realized.
That is an arbitrary conception of success, no? We as an extraverted nation choose to define success in those terms because we value extraversion.
To me, the successful person was the one most content with their life, not the one making it the farthest. What we call success and the grit that makes it is all an illusion.
On another note, I dislike when people speak like kids in school are commodities that need to meet a general idea of success and that we all need to find the key to having them 'produce' and come out at the end as these perfect little beings that match our expectations. They're people not little robots that we need to 'train' to be as productive and successful as possible.