"Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and MacArthur Fellow, defines grit as two interconnected components that work together over time. "It's these two parts, right? Passion for long-term goals, like loving something and staying in love with it. Not kind of wandering off and doing something else, and then something else again, and then something else again, but having a kind of North Star," she said."
"Partly, it's hard work, right? Partly it's practicing what you can't yet do, and partly it's resilience. So part of perseverance is, on the really bad days, do you get up again?" Duckworth's research, which dates back to 2007, has pushed the idea that grit outperforms traditional predictors of success. She studied over 11,000 cadets across multiple years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, measuring their "grit scores" upon entry and tracking their performance through the notoriously difficult "Beast Barracks" training program."
High achievement correlates strongly with grit, defined as the combined qualities of sustained passion and perseverance toward long-term goals. Passion involves loving an interest and maintaining commitment to it over years rather than frequently switching pursuits. Perseverance encompasses deliberate practice, hard work, and resilience, including the ability to recover and continue after setbacks. Longitudinal studies beginning in 2007 tracked over 11,000 cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, measuring grit upon entry and observing outcomes during the demanding "Beast Barracks" program. In those samples, grit outperformed SAT scores, high school GPA, physical fitness tests, and other conventional predictors in forecasting completion of the program.
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