Richie McCaw showed grit as the All Black captain by shouldering the weight of expectations from his team and country with every test match. Despite intense scrutiny, he captained 110 All Black games through defeating defeats and learning from mistakes. Ernest Shackleton endured three British expeditions to Antarctica, reaching furthest south twice and leading an epic rescue after his ship became trapped in ice off Antarctica. He died pursuing his passion for Antarctic exploration. JK Rowling showed grit by writing the first Harry Potter book in cafes as her home was too cold, and persisting through many rejections until publishing under her initials to overcome publishers' doubts about a woman author's success.

2. Who is he and how did he
show GRIT?
Michael Jordan

3. Michael Jordan
He was cut for his high school
basketball team. “I’ve missed
more than 9,000 shots in my
career,” and “ I've lost about
300 games. 26 times I've been
trusted to take the winning shot
and missed. I’ve failed over and
over again. And that is why I
succeed. ( 2006)]

4. Who is he and how did he show GRIT?

5. Who is he and how did he show GRIT?
Richie McCaw as the All Black Captain had the weight
of the team but a country on his shoulders every test
match. Every defeat or poor game he had to consider
where he and the team had done wrong, learn from
the mistakes and try again. He was under intense
scrutiny every time he played. Such was his
determination though that he captained 110 All Black
games.

6. Who is he and how did he show GRIT?

7. Who is he and how did he show GRIT?
Ernest Shackleton made three British expeditions to the Antarctic,.
On his first expedition he walked the furthest south in history. On the
second he he and three companions established a new record
Farthest South. His third expedition, was not to the pole, Shackleton
turned his attention to the crossing of Antarctica from sea to become
trapped in ice. The crew escaped by camping on the sea ice until
disintegrated, then using lifeboats camped on an island. Shake=leton
undertook to sail to the inhabited island of South Georgia, a stormy
ocean voyage of 720 nautical miles and Shackleton's most famous
exploit. In 1921, he returned to the Antarctic with the Shackleton–
Rowett Expedition, but died of a heart attack while his ship was
moored in South Georgia. At his wife's request he was buried there.

8. Who is she and how did she show GRIT?

9. Who is she and how did he show GRIT?
Famously hard up, she wrote the first book in
Edinburgh cafes as her house was too cold. It was
rejected publishers, again and again. She almost
gave up, tormented with self doubt.
She was told to author it under J K Rowling, so
people would now know it was a woman, such
was the publishers continued misgivings over how
successful her books would be

10. Who is she and how did she show GRIT?

11. Who is she and how did she show GRIT?
Kate Sheppard, a suffragette who campaigned long and
hard for women to take part in and have a voice in
democratic elections.
She petitioned, rallied women, s[oke, suffered personal
attacks and gained the vote for women in NZ. This then
influenced others to also emancipate women.

12. Who is he and how did he show grit?

13. Who is he and how did he show grit?
An iconic New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary
did not just walk up Everest one day ‘ cause he
felt like it. On the expedition, they had no idea
they would succeed or die trying."We didn't know if it was
humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we
were, if we did get to the top, we weren't at all sure whether we wouldn't drop
dead or something of that nature."
But he kept going in icy, deadly conditions with Tenzing Norgay.
He was later quoted as saying
"It's not the mountain we conquer - but ourselves"

14. Who is he and how did he show grit?

15. Who is he and how did he show grit?
Thomas Edison, the creator of the light bulb.
He failed 100s of times. When asked by
critics about his failures he replied
“I didn't fail, I found 100 ways not to make a
lightbulb.”

16. Other examples that you can think of?