How to raise children with grit

As part of her research, Duckworth conducted studies of high-achieving individuals in various fields ranging from business to education and the military. She was looking for common characteristics or personality traits that could be used as a predictor of success. 

After extensive research, she concluded that there is one characteristic that they almost all had in common and she has labelled that characteristic as GRIT.

Personally, I associate grit with resilience and it’s a trait that I deeply admire in other people. It’s something I try to display myself and a characteristic that I hope to cultivate in my children. 

It’s generally accepted that most of our personality traits are influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. But to what extent exactly, is often hard to define.

However, in the case of grit, researchers have managed to put a number on it. Which I love. Here’s how they did it.

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