Coaching practices for Angela Duckworth Grit

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I’ve been putting in the hours for ages and I’ve completely plateaued
  • The thing I’m grinding at no longer excites me the way it did, and on the hard days I’m running on willpower alone
  • I throw myself at a dozen unrelated things and a few years later I’ve got nothing to show for any of them
  • I keep hopping from one new thing to the next, waiting to feel that lightning-bolt passion before I’ll really commit
  • I just hit a real failure

Practices that may help

  1. Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
    Grit, from Angela Duckworth, is passion and perseverance for long-term goals — sustaining effort and interest over years, not just intensity in the moment. It’s an intuitive and useful idea, but be honest about the science: meta-analytic work suggests grit overlaps heavily with the established trait of conscientiousness and adds relatively little predictive power beyond it, and the perseverance component does more of the work than passion. Treat grit as a helpful lens, not a settled predictor.
  2. Practice deliberately, not just repeatedly
    Target weaknesses with full focus and feedback, not comfortable repetition.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  3. Anchor perseverance in purpose
    Tie the long grind to a purpose beyond yourself to sustain it through setbacks.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  4. Organize effort under one top-level goal
    Arrange your day-to-day goals as a hierarchy serving one overarching aim.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  5. Develop interest, don’t just wait to find it
    Deepen passion through engagement over time rather than expecting instant fit.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  6. Recover from setbacks without quitting the goal
    Build a routine for bouncing back so setbacks don’t end the pursuit.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  7. Notice your fixed-mindset triggers
    Catch the situations that flip you into "I just can’t" so you can respond.
    Growth Mindset: The Honest Version
  8. Choose consistency over intensity
    Sustained, regular effort beats sporadic heroics for long-term goals.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  9. Link every action to a named value
    Before you begin, name the value the action expresses — not just the goal it serves.
    Committed Action, Made Practical
  10. Do the unsexy work no one else sees
    Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
    The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice

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