Rebooting My Brain: Goodbye Fixed Mindset. Hello...

I'm partway through reading 'Grit' by Angela Duckworth.

It talks about the power of persevering through repeated failures until you see success.

And then setting a new target and following the same process all over again.

Why?

For the sake of progress.

For the sake of progress itself.

For the sake of mastery.

Then there's ENDURING grit.

To have enduring grit in one discipline...

You also need something else

You need passion.

Otherwise boredom and distraction will eat you up.

So grit can exist absent passion....

But enduring success and mastery is much more difficult to achieve absent passion.

So practically - you can learn violin, or learn a language real quickly and display growth and grit doing this.

But mastery - and becoming world class....

For this you need passion in almost all cases.

It's interesting exploring this 'grit' thing.

And useful to look at my upbringing through the lens of grit and

This is what surprised me >

If you grow up with any level of talent; and talent that's surrounded by...well less talent...

You tend to NOT develop grit.

And when you don't develop grit - your mindset tends to be fixed.

So whilst I've excelled academically and performed reasonably well in sports...

Anytime the going go tough....

The truth is - now I see...I basically ran away.

So for those naturals; for those who like me haven't necessarily had to struggle as much...

Here's the beautiful part - it's not too late to change.

Not too late to engage in growth activities.

Not too late to work upon something that will involve you 'failing' in it's initial stages.

For me the next frontier is learning Italian.

And demonstrating to myself that 'yes' - you can learn Italian to a very good conversational level in less than 3 months by studying it part time

Let's go!