Is grit something you can learn? | Polly Morland

Changing who we are is hard to imagine, and even harder to actually do. But the good news is, it's not impossible

Thanks to the findings of the US psychologist Angela Duckworth, what gives you grit - and whether you can change to develop it - is very much on the agenda.

We once intoned "Every day in every way, I'm getting better and better", or we machinated about winning friends and influencing people. But we barely paused for breath before turning to the cultivation of (seven) habits of highly effective people and, not long after, the winning ways of Outliers. And on it rolls - our hunger for remedies for mediocrity is as insatiable as ever.

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