Grit
The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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In this must-listen book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and businesspeople - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit".
Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments.
Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not genius but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own "character lab" and set out to test her theory.
Here, she takes listeners into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers - from J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll.
Winningly personal, insightful, and even life changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down and how that - not talent or luck - makes all the difference.
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©2016 Angela Duckworth. All rights reserved. (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Inspiring but lack of practical tools
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It took a great deal of grit to finish this book
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great book
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Un peu longuet
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One of the best books I've read
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A bit lackluster
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Inspirant !
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First, good things about this book: the author reads very well. Good audio quality.
Everything else makes for a very bad book. There are numerous issues with the author's vision, approach and methodology. I can't list all of them here, but I'll start with the most problematic issues:
1/ The author itself doesn't seem like a good psychologist. She pretty much sounds like someone extremely happy to have been able to have taken a step back on life, and who now believes she attained wisdom. While anyone who took two or three steps back can see she still believes in a LOT of fallacies, myths, and globally did not deconstruct well her approach to life.
Many references are made to her dad, and it can be felt many, many times through the book that she still suffers from low self-esteem from their relationship, which is very fine, as long as you're not pretending to not suffer from self-esteem issues. The book kind of read like a whole "See how good I am, dad?". Which is not helped at all by the annoying tendency from almost any self-help book to make their author shine in the brightest possible light.
Similarly, the book holds a position against essentialism of character (i.e. there are no natural winners and losers, you can learn to succeed in life) but at the same time it is clear the author still holds a very essentialist approach. She still uses terms such as "winner" and "loser". Her choice of people to interview for the book also shows quite much a lot about her, i.e. how she buys in into the whole "rich entrepreneurs are just better people" popular american myth.
Simply put, the author stopped her world analysis way too early while being convinced that she now holds the ultimate truth. It is extremely cringe to listen to people like this. I don't think that makes for a good book, nor for a very good psychologist.
2/ The psychology is quite bad. For multiple reasons, but I will just have to quote two huge fallacies that the author commit.
First, her definition of "grit" keeps changing depending on her findings about that value. In the end, what she calls "grit" is actually nothing like the original word. Would you call "gritty" or "perseverant" someone who works a lot on a hobby because they love it so much? That seems like a stretch. But because the data shows that working on what you love makes you successful, the author labelize it as "gritty". Smells like a true scottsman fallacy.
Another huge fallacy the author commits is the survivor fallacy. By interviewing only successful people, she completely fails to nuance her argument. It makes as much sense as interviewing people who got rich playing the lottery, determining they all won the lottery, and therefore recommending that everyone plays the lottery. The author refuse to acknowledge the simple truth that perserverance and passion can - sometimes - lead to bad outcomes, especially when it's badly directed - Oh but there is a chapter about how you have to direct your grit in a smart direction! But without really explaining how. So basically the whole ad-hoc argument works in reverse. In the end, if you were successful, it means you applied the concepts in this book well (so the author is proven right), and if you were not, well you did not apply them well (so the author is proven right again). This is neither good science nor psychology, you cannot establish a theory starting from the conclusions.
There are some good arguments and interesting data in the book. But it's globally an extremely cringe read/listen, and the bulk of the argument often falls flat. It is often inspiring, which can be a good thing, except when it blinds you to the reality that the author just is not exposing a very good argument.
You can listen to it, but you should never takes what the author says at face value. There are some interesting parts, such as the "growth mindset" if you're not familiar with that already, althought I did not find the explanations for this great concept (which doesn't come from this author) to be particularly stellar.
For an alternative, I recommend "Atomic habits", which is way more grounded in reality and which presents a way better argument leading to actual changes to make you a happier person.
A bad psychology book from a bad psychologist
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