![]() ![]() ![]() Paradoxically, perseverance is itself fragile. It’s perseverance that nurtures the gentle flame until it becomes a solid fire. What fans the flames of passion? Perseverance. Passion, which ultimately can provide great power to someone’s life, starts small. It’s cultivated from a small spark, then a fragile flame. Passion develops after people have been able to experience life and discover what it is that’s truly important to them. So, which comes first? Does passion come first or does perseverance? The answer is both – sort of. It encompasses both passion and perseverance. If you’re looking for a single metric that measures the ability for someone to become successful in life, it might be grit – but, as the title of the book indicates, grit is an aggregate indicator. Not that it doesn’t still have value, just that there’s a richness in Duckworth’s writing that just isn’t there in the other title. I at some point noticed the author wasn’t Angela Duckworth and was confused until I realized that it wasn’t the book I thought it was.Ĭompared to Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Grit: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up pales. I saw the book Grit: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up and bought it. Slightly less than a year ago, I was flipping through an email from with a list of books that were discounted. Her book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance was most recently mentioned in The Gift of Failure, and it was then that I realized that I couldn’t delay reading it any longer, despite having made a mistake. Angela Duckworth’s work on grit has come up in my research more than a few times. ![]()
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