Grit
Ratings76
Average rating4.1
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Ratings76
Average rating4.1
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It was a decent read. But got really repetitive soon. The main ideas are useful, but I found myself skipping or glancing over a bunch of stuff since it just kept rehashing the same ideas again and again.
There are parts of this book that really stuck with me, though it fails to address the cost of grit other than to acknowledge that it doesn't address it.
As with many books of this ilk, the thesis is more or less in the subtitle. I enjoyed the descriptions of the different seminal studies in psychology as they pertained to the topic, and I like and now often reiterate to myself “We do hard things”: but overall the book got really repetitive after the first chapter or two. Takeway: success is determined more by grit than raw talent. Perhaps as a self-identified gritty individual I was like... well, yeah.
