Grit A Career Skills Activity

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GRIT IS PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE FOR LONG-TERM GOALS.

Grit isn’t talent. Grit isn’t luck. Grit isn’t how intensely, for the moment, you want something. Instead, grit is about having an "ultimate concern"–a goal you care about so much that it organizes and gives meaning to almost everything you do. And grit is holding steadfast to that goal. Even when you fall down. Even when you screw up. Even when progress toward that goal is halting or slow.

Watch this short video

Complete this short quiz:

Grit Scale

Think about it

• Where did you land on the grit scale?

• Did you score above, below, or right where you expected?

• How can having grit help you accomplish your long-term goals?

• How can you challenge yourself to build grit?

• Where is your ability to demonstrate grit important in your life today?

What if?

Imagine you own a business and you are looking to hire a new employee. How important would it be to you to have someone with grit work for you? How would you determine how much grit a candidate has during an interview? How would you model grit for your employees?

Make it matter

Interview someone on grit. Ask them to describe the biggest and toughest goal they have ever worked towards achieving. Listen to the struggles they had getting to their goal and the grit they used to get past/through the barriers they faced.

Take away at least one life lesson on grit from your conversation and look for opportunities to apply it to your own life.

Appreciate

Credits:

Created with images by Jaco Pretorius - "untitled image" • Marc-Olivier Jodoin - "Hope" • Unknown - "Free Photo: Success, Gradual, Career, Stairs - Free Image ..." • Richard Felix - "I hope you enjoyed this photo!" • Medienstürmer - "two businessmen having a meeting in the park " • Jessica Da Rosa - "untitled image"