This document discusses key concepts from the book "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance" by Professor Angela Duckworth. It describes grit as perseverance, mental toughness, and an unyielding attitude to achieve life goals. The document outlines four pillars for developing grit: 1) having a passion for a goal or activity, 2) engaging in deliberate practice to improve skills, 3) having a sense of purpose for one's work, and 4) maintaining a sense of hope that goals can be achieved through perseverance.

1. Grit: The
Power of
Passion and
Perseverance

2. Grit is a book
written by
Professor
Angela
Duckworth,
professor of
psychology at
the University
of Pennsylvania

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This book discusses
the importance of
GRIT in the long
process of pursuing
our life goals.

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The GRIT are perseverance, mental
toughness, resilience, and unyielding
attitude to achieve our life goals.
In his research, Prof. Angela found that
the element of GRIT becomes a key
determinant of a person's success in
realizing his life's dreams.

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GRIT can also be interpreted as the
ability to delay instant pleasure, for
the sake of future success (delaying
gratification skills). They are willing
to work hard for a long time, in order
to achieve their life dreams (whether
dreams in the world of career,
business, finance or personal goals).

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People who have strong grit will be able to
go through in brutal and long process, and
are always able to find solutions when
various problems and obstacles arise.

9. There are four key
pillars for growing GRIT
and RESILIENCY…..
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10. Grit Pillar # 1:
Passion and
Interest
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11. Prof Angela wrote: the first element to
to grow GRIT is you have INTEREST or
PASSION with activity that you are
doing.....

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Without love and passion for your
profession or activity, you will easily
give up in the middle of the road if you
encounter obstacles.
If you have deep interest on what you
do, you will be able to stay focus and
survive when your encounter many
challenges and difficulties.

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Example of passion-based profesions:
1. A professional tennis athlete who
has a passion for the world of tennis
2. A Master Chef who has a strong
passion for the world of cooking
3. A stock analyst who has a passion for
the investment world

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Example of passion-based profesions:
4. A book writer who has a passion for
the world of writing
5. A researcher who has a high interest
in the world of research
6. A marketing manager who has a
passion for the world of marketing
and branding

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Example of passion-based profesions:
7. A professional photographer who
has a deep interest in the world of
photography
8. A lecturer who has a passion for the
education world
9. A programmer who loves coding

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Someone who has a strong
interest or passion with the world
he or she is engaged in, will have
a more intense encouragement
to pursue success in the world.

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On the other hand, someone who
does not have a strong interest or
passion in the field they are engaged
in, will tend to be less enthusiastic
about living optimally. Especially if
the field is not liked at all. He or she
will easily get bored and tired of
living it.

18. But, passion
alone is never
enough…..
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19. Without being
accompanied by
skills that
continue to grow,
passion alone
will not make us
successful in
achieving our
dreams

20. To grow our
skills and grit,
we need to do
“DELIBERATE
PRACTICE”…..

21. Grit Pillar #2:
Deliberate
Practice.

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Deliberate practice refers to a
special type of practice that is
purposeful and systematic. While
regular practice might include
mindless repetitions, deliberate
practice requires focused attention
and is conducted with the specific
goal of improving performance.

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• Deliberate practice has well-defined,
specific goals: Knowing what the ultimate
performance goal is, and breaking it down
into small, specific, and difficult targets – as
opposed to just playing for fun.
• It requires full engagement and high
concentration: Practicing with as much
focus and engagement as possible – as
opposed to mindlessly repeating exercises
while daydreaming.

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• It requires feedback: Knowing how well
you’re doing, what your weaknesses are,
where you need to improve, if you’re getting
better – as opposed to practicing without
any information about how you’re doing.
• It requires getting out of one’s comfort
zone: Trying things one can’t do yet and
practicing at the edge of one’s capabilities –
as opposed to doing what’s easy and
enjoyable.

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• It involves chunking: Breaking down the
overall skill into sub-skills and training them
separately – as opposed to just practicing
the full skill over and over again.
• It involves identifying and eliminating
mistakes: Using feedback or other methods
to figure out weaknesses and coming up
with methods to eliminate them – as
opposed to just practicing the full skill over
and over.

26. Stages of doing
deliberate
practice: first,
determine the
type of specific
skills you want
to grow.

27. Examples of
specific skills:
- Writing skills
- Social media
marketing skills
- Presentation
skills
- Problem solving
skills

28. Examples of other
specific skills:
• Business
analysis skills
• Programming
skills
• Blogging skills
• Leadership
skills

29. Next, you need
to set specific
and concrete
skill
improvement
targets.

30. For example, the increasing target for
blogging skills includes aspects such as:
• Able to create a blog with wordpress
• Able to write new blog content every
week of at least 500 words
• Able to do SEO marketing to increase blog
traffic
• Able to do email marketing to attract
email subscribers

31. Afterwards, do the
training process and
practice skills
improvement
regularly and
consistently.
Perform periodic
evaluations to see
the progress of the
skills enhancement.

32. Grit Pillar #3 :
Sense of PURPOSE

33. Your grit and resilience will grow if
you have SENSE of PURPOSE to
what you are doing.

34. Sense of Purpose: what are the positive
benefits and values ​​that can be obtained by
others from the results of your profession?

35. Example: a book writer who feels
that through his book he helps
spread knowledge that is useful for
others

36. Or a laptop seller who feels that his
laptop product has helped other people
become more productive…

37. Find BENEFITS and positive VALUE
for life of many from what you
are currently doing. Find GOOD
VALUE and SENSE of PURPOSE
from your hard work.

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Have SENSE of
PURPOSE will
enable your
GRIT and
RESILIENCE to
grow optimally

39. Grit Pillar #4 :
Sense of HOPE

40. Your grit and resilience will grow if
you also have SENSE of HOPE: or
feeling hopeful that what you
dream of will someday
come true.

41. Hope is a kind of optimism, or
confidence that one day your life
goals will come true.

42. For example: someone has
aspirations to write 5 books in the
next 5 years. Person that has HOPE
can make his dream comes true.
That kind of Sense of HOPE can also
make GRIT and RESILIENCE to
continue to grow.

43. Cultivate HOPE in your SOUL.
Hope that what you are fighting
for will SUCCEED. Positive
expectations will make you to
be more resilient in facing life's
challenges.

44. Method of
Cultivating
Positive
Hope……

45. Set Small and Easy-to-
Achieve Goals

46. Some people become easily
disappointed because their targets or
expectations are too grandiose.
Their hopes are easily lost because
they begin the action with too many
difficult targets

47. Studies show that big changes have to
be started with SMALL AND EASY
STEPS TO DO. Start your action with
small scale. Start Small. Take first easy
steps. Slowly, these small steps will
create a momentum effect.

48. The small steps that you managed
earlier will produce small wins. And
this is very important. Why?
Because these small wins will trigger
the growth of POSITIVE HOPE in you.
You become more optimistic and
excited because you can feel
small wins.

49. Then slowly, these small wins and growth
of positive hope will motivate you to take
bigger steps. This is where the momentum
effect is created. The initial action that was
small, will eventually enlarge and have a
significant impact on the success of
your life.

50. The 4 Key Elements of GRIT :
• Element 1: PASSION
• Element 2: DELIBERATE
PRACTICE
• Element 3: SENSE of PURPOSE
• Element 4: HOPE

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