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Grit:
Flow is performing at high levels of challenge and yet feeling ‘effortless,’ like ‘you don’t have to think about it, you’re just doing it.’
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Grit:
Gritty people do more deliberate practice and experience more flow.
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Grit:
…deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.
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Grit:
Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.
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Grit:
…there are different kinds of positive experience: the thrill of getting better is one, and the ecstasy of performing at your best is another.
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Grit:
…no matter their initial talent, great performers in every domain improve through deliberate practice.
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A mountain of research… show that when you have a habit of practicing at the same time and in the same place every day, you hardly have to think about getting started. You just do it.
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Eventually, if you keep practicing in the same time and place, what once took conscious thought to initiate becomes automatic.
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Interest is one source of passion. Purpose – the intention to contribute to the well-being of others – is another. The mature passions of gritty people depend on both.
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…the long days and evenings of toil, the setbacks and disappointments and struggle – the sacrifice – all this is worth it because… efforts pay dividends to other people.
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