What Motivates You?
Leaders in their field
- Financial leaders or business people take financial risks worth millions of dollars
- Creative people have more of a drive to create things
- Sports people driven by the thrill of victory.
It is important to keep going after failure.
- There are countless rising stars who surprisingly dropped out or lost interest before they could realize their potential.
- “Some people are great when things are going well, but fall apart when things aren’t.”
Why were the highly accomplished so dogged in their pursuits?
- For most, there were no realistic expectations for them to catch up to their ambitions.
- In their own eyes, they were never good enough.
- They were the opposite of complacent
- They were satisfied being unsatisfied
- It is the chase as much as the capture that was gratifying
- Their passion was enduring
- They knew in a very deep way, what is was that they wanted
- Not just determination, but direction
Re-source: Reinvoke
to call for with earnest desire
Grit is the combination of passion and perseverance that make high achievers special.
- No matter how talented an individual is, it does not correspond to their grit
- Talent is no guarantee of grit
Someone twice as talented but half as hardworking as another person might reach the same level of skill; but still produce dramatically less over time
- This is because as strivers are improving in skill, they are also employing that skill to make pots, direct movies, wirte books, etc.
- The striver who equals the person who is a natural in skill by working harder will in the long run accomplish more
Talent and skill
- Talent you have naturally, skill is only developed by hours and hours spent on your craft.
- Skill is not the same thing as achievement
- Without effort your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential.
- Without effort your skill is nothing more than what you could have done, but didn’t.
- With effort, talent becomes skill and at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.
craving and resource from “Grit” by Angela Duckworth