Grit (48 page)

hand in hand with well-being
:
Victoria Young, Yuchen Lin, and Angela L. Duckworth, “Associations Between Grit and Subjective Well-Being in a Large Sample of US Adults,” poster presented at the 16th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA, February 2015.

between the extremes
:
Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
. Adam M. Grant and Barry Schwartz, “Too Much of a Good Thing: The Challenge and Opportunity of the Inverted U,”
Perspectives in Psychological Science
6 (2011): 61–76.

wanted to be grittier
:
This data was collected in 2015 and is not yet published.

honesty trumps all
:
Geoffrey P. Goodwin, Jared Piazza, and Paul Rozin, “Moral Character Predominates in Person Perception and Evaluation,”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
106 (2014): 148–68.

character is plural
:
I wish I could take credit for the expression, “character is plural.” I cannot. Many others have made the same observation, including Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman in
Character Strengths and Virtues
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 10.

dimensions of character
:
Daeun Park et al., “A Tripartite Taxonomy of Character: Evidence for Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Intellectual Competencies in Youth,” (manuscript under review, 2015). Note that these same three virtue clusters correspond, roughly, to the Big Five personality dimensions of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience.

tend to be self-controlled
:
I see self-control as related but distinct from grit. You can be self-controlled about a goal that is not your top-level, ultimate concern. And self-control isn't directly related to overcoming setbacks and failures. However, both grit and self-control are about achieving valued goals. See Angela L. Duckworth and James J. Gross, “Self-Control and Grit: Related but Separable Determinants of Success,”
Current Directions in Psychological Science
23 (2014): 319–25. I personally believe that self-control is an extraordinarily important virtue, and to learn more about strategies that facilitate it and their benefits, see Walter Mischel,
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
(New York: Little, Brown, 2014), and Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney,
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
(New York: Penguin, 2011).

“resume virtues”; “eulogy virtues”
:
David Brooks,
The Road to Character
(New York: Random House, 2015), xi.

world of ideas
:
I haven't touched upon creativity in this book. In many endeavors, creativity is absolutely essential, and I direct the interested reader to Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire,
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
(New York: Perigee Books, 2015).

predict different outcomes
:
Park et al., “Tripartite Taxonomy.”

“nothing was coming out”
:
“Advice on Writing from the
Atlantic
's Ta-Nehisi Coates,” Atlantic video, September 27, 2013,
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/09/advice-on-writing-from-i-the-atlantic-i-s-ta-nehisi-coates/280025
.

“writing is failure”
:
“Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015 MacArthur Fellow,” MacArthur Foundation video, posted September 28, 2015,
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/931
.

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Academy Awards,
44

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT),
310
n

Age and grit,
84
–
89

Airborne Rangers,
248
,
260

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation,
143

Allen, Woody,
49

Amazon.com
,
95
,
111

America's Got Talent
(television program),
31

Anderson, Chris,
134

Angelou, Maya,
140

Animal experiments.
See
Dogs, experiments on; Rats, experiments on

Anxiety,
174

Apatow, Judd,
127
–
28

Aristotle,
146
,
271
–
72

Army Special Operations Forces.
See
Green Berets

Army Ten-Miler,
249
–
50

Asemani, Kayvon,
190
–
91

Attribution retraining program,
179

Attrition model,
259

Authoritarian parenting,
200
,
203
,
211
,
212
,
213

Authoritative parenting.
See
Wise (authoritative) parenting

Autonomously motivated goals,
297
n

Bacon, Francis,
76

Baime, Michael,
155
–
57

Baldwin, James,
183

Basketball,
84

Beast Barracks,
4
–
7
,
9
–
10
,
12

characteristics of successful cadets,
5
–
7

diminished attrition rate in,
259

typical day at,
4

Beck, Aaron,
173
,
175
–
76

Beep Test,
255
–
56

Berg, Justin,
166

Between the World and Me
(Coates),
275

Bezos, Jeff,
95
,
96
,
99
,
104
,
110
–
11
,
263

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
218
,
230
–
31

Blaine, David,
124

Blake, Juliet,
133
–
34

Bloom, Benjamin,
107
,
108
,
144
,
211
,
215
–
16

Bodrova, Elena,
141
–
42

Bonaparte, Napoleon,
76

Boredom,
104
,
111
–
12

Bozeman, Sylvia,
194

Breakthrough Greater Boston,
158

Bricklayers, parable of the,
149
–
50
,
152
,
153

Brigham Young University (BYU),
202
,
206
,
215

Brodsky, Joseph,
257

Brooks, David,
274

Browning School,
253

Buffett, Warren,
66
–
68

Bugle Notes,
258

Bugnard, Chef,
101

Bundick, Matt,
160

Bunsen, Christian K. J. von,
76

Burke, Edmund,
76

Bush, George H. W.,
49

Calling,
149
–
57

developing
vs.
finding,
153

taking time to identify,
155
–
57

unconventional paths to,
161
–
62

Cambridge University,
31

Canada, Geoffrey,
237
–
38

Carnegie Mellon University,
31
,
33

Carroll, Pete,
74

life philosophy of,
61
–
62
,
64

Seahawk culture and,
243
–
44
,
251
,
261
–
68

Caslen, Robert,
258
–
61

Cervantes, Miguel de,
75

Chalmers, Thomas,
76

Chambliss, Dan,
36
–
38
,
39
,
81
,
245
–
47

Character,
273
–
74

Chast, Roz,
69

Chatman, Jennifer,
183

Chatterton, Thomas,
76

Chicago Public Schools,
11

Child, Julia,
57
,
99
–
101

Child-centered approach to parenting,
201
,
211

Child Genius
(television program),
31

Christensen, Ulrik,
122
–
23

Chua, Amy,
106

Cider House Rules, The
(film),
44

Cinnabon bakery chain,
163
,
164

Clarkson, Kelly,
187

Clinton, Bill,
35
–
36

Clinton, Hillary,
35
–
36

Close, Kerry,
125
–
26
,
137

Coady, Chantal,
96

Coates, Ta-Nehisi,
275
–
76

Cobden, Richard,
76

Cognitive behavioral therapy,
176
, 193,
310
n

Cohen, Geoff,
218
–
19

Cole, Kat,
163
–
65

Coleman, Cody,
220
–
22

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
76

College education,
11
,
230
–
32

Columbia University,
226
,
257

Communication,
253
,
256

Community colleges,
11

Compass metaphor,
60
,
63
, 67,
90

Competition,
262
–
63
,
265
–
66

Competition Wednesdays,
262

Copernicus, Nicolaus,
75

Corresponsive principle,
233
–
34
, 246

Cost-benefit analysis,
248
,
250

Côté, Jean,
107
–
8

Cox, Catharine,
74
–
78

Crossword puzzle design,
95
,
108
–
10
,
111
–
12
,
115

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly,
128
–
31

Culture,
243
–
68

categorical allegiance to,
245

defined,
244

generational differences and, 85–
86
,
89

identity and,
247
–
50

organizational,
252
–
58

Cuomo, Mario,
49

Currey, Mason,
139

Daily Rituals
(Currey),
139

Damon, Bill,
162
–
63
,
167

Danton, Georges J.,
76

Darling, Nancy,
213

Darwin, Charles,
20
–
22

Davy O'Brien award,
203

Dear Abby,
193

Deierlein, Tom,
248
–
50
,
260

Deliberate practice,
120
–
42

applying principles of,
123
–
24

author's experience of,
133
–
35

effortfulness of,
127
–
28

feedback and,
122
–
23
,
132
,
134

flow and,
128
–
32
,
137

getting the most from,
137
–
42

as a habit,
139
–
40

positive experience of,
135
–
37
,
140
–
42

science of,
137
–
39

stretch goal in,
121
–
23

Demanding style of parenting,
201
–
7
,
211

Denver Broncos,
243

Depression,
173
,
174
,
176
,
193

De Sena, Joe,
319
n

Developmental model,
259
–
61

Díaz, Roberto,
121

Dimon, Jamie,
252
–
54
,
256

Divine Fury: A History of Genius
(McMahon),
288
–
89
n

Dogs, experiments on,
171
–
73
,
187

Dorrance, Anson,
254
–
58
,
262

Dorsin, Neil,
286
n

Dropout rates

college,
11
,
230
–
32

West Point,
3
–
4
,
259

Drucker, Peter,
124

Duckworth, Angela

daughter Amanda,
134
,
240
,
241
,
242
,
271

daughter Lucy,
87
–
88
,
134
,
223
,
240
–
41
,
242
,
271

father of,
xiii
–xv,
96
–
97
,
98
,
107
,
159
,
167
,
277

Grit Scale scores of,
57

Hard Thing Rule and,
241
–
42