Do you know that there’s a 12-item GRIT SCALE?
I didn’t know that. But I know now, thanks to some colleagues in Cohort 25 at SMU. Was it you, Jordan, who mentioned the grit scale?
Here’s another version of a Grit Scale. Check out Dr. Angela Duckworth’s info about grit scales.
There’s even a grit scale for kids, too. True grit: check your kid’s resilience…
Do you have grit? Am I gritty? Hmmmm…… What is grit anyway?
All about remaining committed to goals – so you can actually achieve those goals. In one article, grit is defined as “passion and perseverance for long-term goals.” And Woody Allen kinda defined grit when he said, “80% of success is showing up.”
Check out this article in Frontiers in Psychology… “The grit effect: predicting retention in the military, the workplace, school and marriage.”