But that doesn’t mean it’s twice as important. Your increasing skill, multiplied by effort, leads to achievement. Your first bit of talent, combined with effort increases your skill level. With a certain amount (or lack) of talent, your starting points for those two “movements” then become: However, once you have it, you still need to use and apply the skill for a long time in order to actually get there. In order to achieve something, you first need the right skill to be able to even start working towards the achievement. The funny thing is, we have no reason to. Because if you said that hard work trumps talent and really believed it, you’d be right.Īfter looking at successful people across a wide range of disciplines, from politicians to athletes to writers, Angela set up a set of two equations, which simplify the way talent and effort are related, to make it clear how much more important effort is. Lesson 2: The impact effort has on achievement is exponentially greater than talent. We like to tell ourselves that we believe in hard work more than in talent. The majority of the experts ended up preferring the piece by the “natural.” The kicker is that on both occasions, the exact same recording was played. She studied that last question by giving music experts two written descriptions of a “naturally talented” and a “hard-working, striving” musician and then letting them listen to a recording of the musician performing. In 2011, Chia-Jung Tsay made a shocking discovery. But when it gets hard, when the other guy gets the promotion, when the third business idea fails, do you really hold on to that belief? Or do you maybe think, deep down, you don’t have enough talent after all?
It’s what you want to believe.Īnd it’s also what 66% of people say when they’re asked this question. What’s more important: hard work or talent?” you’d probably say “hard work.” It’s what you think you believe. If I approached you on the street and said: “We’re conducting a study and would like your opinion. If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: When we say we think hard work trumps talent, we usually just bullshit ourselves. Ready to become that soldier, that person who’s willing to go on, long after others have quit? Then let’s get gritty! Combine small, low-level, daily goals with a larger vision to stay consistently motivated.Effort has a much, much bigger impact on achievement than talent.Even though we say hard work is more important than talent, we still believe the opposite deep down.That’s Grit and that’s what you’ll learn about today in these 3 lessons: She just knew that perseverance and passion drive effort, and effort drives achievement. Angela Duckworth needs a lot of it herself, coming from a family in which her father often criticized her for her “lack of genius.” However, her work in psychology, which led her through Harvard, Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania, making her a 2013 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow – ironic? I’m sure it’s no coincidence the expression “to grit one’s teeth” lends itself to the title of this book, the word as a noun means courage, perseverance and fortitude. But then, in a moment of almost angry defiance, he grits his teeth, pulls his foot out of the mud and crawls onward. A soldier has to crawl through the mud, barbed wire around him, and due to the heavy rain, he suddenly gets stuck and can’t move. When I hear the word grit, I always have the same image in mind immediately. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account:
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