Grit: Summary & ReviewBy Lucio Buffalmano / 18 minutes of reading

Grit is the combination of passion and perseverance and, author Angela Duckworth says, is the biggest predictor of achievement.Grit explains how you can find your passion and how you can increase your grit.

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Grit Summary

About The Author: Angela Duckworth is a psychology researcher, Oxford and Harvard alumni and psychology teacher at the University of Pennsylvania.She became popular because of her research on grit, perseverance and achievement for which she also won a McArthur award.The concept of Grit and Duckworth’s research has been controversial.

Part I: What Gris is and Why it Matters

Chapter 1: Showing Up

Angela Duckworth begins Grit with a quick overview of the psychology of the highly successful.

She says that the most successful people: