GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perserverance by Angela Duckworth

1. Variables/Important Definitions

1.1. Talent

1.2. Achievement

1.3. Skill

1.4. Set a Time Limit

2. Interest

3. Practice

4. "As Jeff Bezos has observed, 'One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves.”

5. Deliberate practice is a behavior, flow is an experience

6. Precision/Romanticism

7. American academic, psychologist and popular science author. She is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control.

8. Purpose

9. Hope

10. Interest + Purpose

11. Example: "I use psychological science to help kids thrive." -Angela Duckworth

12. I am laying bricks - Job

13. I am building a church - Career

14. I am building a house of God - Calling

15. Optimist: Searches for temporary and specific cases of their sufering

16. Pessimist: Assume permanent and pervasive causes are to blame