“You must retain faith that you can prevail to greatness in the end, while retaining the discipline to confront the brutal facts of your current reality.” The Stockdale Paradox – Jim Collins
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Grit
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Turns out it’s not enough to be pretty and witty–we now have to be gritty. Grit is getting some hot press at the moment, suggesting that if we want to be truly successful in life, we ain’t gonna achieve it without grit.
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How to See More Motivated Teens
When did we start calling kids “self-motivated” if they responded to someone or something outside themselves? Doesn’t the word “self” mean that it comes from the individual himself? Is someone truly self-motivated if they are doing something to get a reward from someone else? Teens who are not top students may appear to be unmotivated …
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As we start the second quarter of 2009, our optional theme for April is Motivation and Grit. How can people help other people maintain high levels of motivation? What kinds of motivation exist, and how do they relate to achievement? What is grit, and how does it affect well-being and achievement?
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There’s one line that keeps me from dwelling on the negative when difficult things happen in my life. It’s the moral of a story my dad told me when I was growing up. It’s a version of the classic comedy routine by Danny Thomas. Here’s the way Dad told it. “A guy is driving through …