Grit

Grit by Angela Duckworth draws on her years of research as a psychologist and MacArthur Fellow to argue that talent is overrated. The quality that best predicts long-term success, in everything from spelling bees to military training to business, is grit: the combination of passion for a long-term goal and the stamina to pursue it through difficulty and failure. Duckworth explores what grit looks like in practice, how it is developed, the role of deliberate practice, and what parents, teachers, and leaders can do to cultivate it. Grounded in empirical research but written with warmth and compelling stories, Grit is a paradigm-shifting book about what it really takes to achieve meaningful goals.