1. Jackie Evans
Michelle Van De Sande
AAA109103 Advanced Academic Achievement
02/12/2016
What it Means to Me to Have Grit? How I Develop Grit? 4.25
Grit is something that cannot be taught but gained, through personal failure and picking
yourself back up. I believe this is a deeper concept of thinking finding your balance in life, and
achieving it even if that means starting all over again. And that is were the beauty of grit is,
accepting failure but acknowledging what is to come. An example would be, art say if your
sculpting something and you don’t like it or can’t make into what you want it to be. So you
destroy it pretty much mush it back to what it was and make it to be something you see clearly
something your proud of, your pretty much are sculpting your life.
Grit doesn’t develop over night this is a choice, a pathway, an understanding. I believe
this is all around knowing yourself, better. What you can bring to the table, how you manage
your faults, and faults don’t always have to be bad. I truly do believe everyone can have grit its
just the amount of want and desire its put into something. An easy way to understand grit is to
appreciate failing as blessing, a chance to reconcile. Something I did a lot when I didn’t know
something at work when I started out at Denver Health Hospital as a Clerk and coming just out
of dropping out of High School. When I had to complete a small task for a patient or nurse I
would be honest I would say “I don’t know but I’ll find out”. And I always did, coming from no
background for that particular job, I was on top on everything because I loved that job I would
have stayed there till this day if I wasn’t laid off. When I was laid off I went to an adult High
School I graduated at twenty-two then went to Arapahoe Community College for the CNA/Elder

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Care Specialist Program I couldn’t be happier. I am so happy I was laid off at the time I cried
and cried for a good month, I can’t say what clicked in my head but I knew when I graduated
High School this would kick start and it has been. I haven’t quit on myself yet, everything came
into place when I was laid off I lost my apartment I become closer with my mother. I got to love
myself more. Grit is developed by acceptance and understanding. To have grit, I’d like to say
I’m on the right path but I’m only beginning.
Life is like walking backwards, it is easy to see where you have been, not so easy to see where
you are going. –American Native Indian