Dr Emily Musgrove

is in essence the rate at which we improve at something when we try.

Now, if you have a natural talent for something, you're going to improve quickly.

If you don't have a natural talent at something, you might improve a little bit with practice.

And that can be, you know, obviously we really want to acknowledge that obviously we're going to be more talented in some things than others.

But that effort...

counts so significantly to transform that talent into skill and that skill into achievement.

And I think that what's so powerful about this concept is that grit is not something that we're born with.

It is something that we can develop.

And that's why it's so powerful.

Yeah.

Well, there's actually kind of quite a number of characteristics of grit that I think are really important to help us uncover how to be grittier.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And bring the perseverance to that.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I think that actually highlights the first, you know, what Duckworth highlights is one of the first characteristics of grit and that is interest.

So we have to uncover our interests in order to become gritty at something because if we're not interested in the thing and

and we apply immense effort, do you have a sense of what that kind of results in?

Totally.