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Grit to great : how perseverance, passion, and pluck take you from ordinary to extraordinary / Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval.

by Kaplan Thaler, Linda.

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Crown Business, [2015]

Success in business.

Determination (Personality trait).

Career development.

9780804139120 (hc.)

0804139121 (hc.)

158 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes index.

Chapter 1: Why Grit Matters -- Chapter 2: The Talent Myth -- Chapter 3: Ditch the Dream -- Chapter 4: Lose the Safety Net -- Chapter 5: Get into Wait Training Chapter 6: Bend Like Bamboo -- Chapter 7: No Expiration Date -- Chapter 8: Grit for Good -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

"The real secret to success in your careers - the incredible power of grit, perseverance, perspiration, determination, and sheer stick-to-it-tiveness. There are some people who get ahead, who reach the corner office because they are simply gifted, or well-connected, or both. But we far overvalue talent and intellectual ability. The fact is, many people get ahead - even the gifted ones - because they worked incredibly hard, put in the thousands of hours of practice and extra sweat equity, and made their own luck. Linda and Robin are two girls from the Bronx who had no special advantages or privileges and rose up through their own hard work and relentless drive to succeed to the top of their highly competitive profession. The authors reveal the strategies that helped them, and countless others, succeed at the highest levels in their careers and professions, and in their personal lives. The guts - the courage - necessary to take on tough challenges and not give up at the first sign of difficulty. The essential quality of resiliency. Everyone suffers setbacks in their careers and in life. The key, however, is to pick yourself up and bounce back. Why optimists do better in school, work, and on the playing field - and how to reset that optimistic set point. Industriousness, the notion that Malcolm Gladwell popularized with the 10,000-hour rule in his book Outliers. Creativity theorist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes it takes a minimum of 10 years for one's true creative potential to be realized. And tenacity - the quality that allows us to remain focused and avoid distraction in order to get the job done - an increasingly difficult task in today's fragmented, cluttered, high-tech, connected world"--From publisher.

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