“All your dreams can come true – if we
have the courage to pursue them.” ―Walt Disney
You must have read the bestselling
book ‘Good to Great: Why Some Companies
Make the Leap...and Others Don't’ authored by Jim Collins. Here is another message
‘Grit to Great’. It means if you have grit you can become great in the world. You
can achieve anything and everything in the world. By the way what do you mean
by grit?
What
is Grit?
Grit is a passion. It is a fire that
moves people forward. It makes them go to any extent to achieve what they want.
It is an extra inner spark that will make people to stand out from others. It
involves a growth mindset unlike the fixed mindset. It makes people to think about future and makes
them get up early morning to execute tasks effectively. It is a kind of
passion, power and perseverance. It is the ability to achieve goals despite
odds stacked against them. It is an indomitable spirit to take on the
challenges head-on with confidence and mettle. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It grows them
as leaders and makes them stand out from others. It is more important than
intelligence quotient and emotional quotient.
Grit is a gut feeling to make decisions
despite not equipped with adequate information. It helps to a great extent to
make decisions quickly to enhance leadership effectiveness. It is more than
technical and business acumen.
Grit is a blend of passion,
perseverance and resilience. It is the
ability to explore other options when failed. It is the ability to experiment
new areas. It is the ability to create stability by overcoming crises. It is
the tenacity and resilience to bounce back from failures to look at the problems
from different perspectives to resolve them. With grit, you can accomplish your
goals quickly. Hence, develop your grit quotient.
Grow
Your Grit
Grit is an unwavering faith in
yourself. It is to encounter the challenges squarely without any fear. It is to
believe in your convictions. People with grit don’t complain, condemn and
criticize. They don’t blame circumstances. They look for opportunities. They
convert threats into opportunities. They convert their scars into stars. Precisely,
grit converts an ordinary person into an extraordinary person.
Grit can be developed by experience,
observation, and learning continuously from failures. To grow grit, you must invest
your efforts consistently. You must work hard, smart and wise to build your
grit. Educators and parents must foster grit in their students and children
respectively. They must inspire with striking stories of leaders who led with their
grit to achieve greater success in life. Educational institutions emphasize on
academic excellence. They must also encourage grit to help students overcome
challenges effectively. Extracurricular
activities help students develop grit quotient. Therefore, educational
institutions must lay equal emphasis on curricular and extracurricular
activities.
Conclusion
Parents often pamper their children.
They want their children to play safe to be comfortable. In fact, what parents
must teach them is to risk and explore. We have only one life. Therefore, whatever
we want to do, we must do in this life only. There is a slogan You Only Live
Once (YOLO). So, do remember this slogan! Inculcating grit in children helps
them build confidence and face challenges squarely in life. Lao Tzu quoted, “Give
a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him
for a lifetime.” Following this quote, parents must not pamper their children.
In contrast, they must push their children out of their comfort zone to enable
the latter to unlock their potential to grow as leaders. To conclude, grit is a gift parents must give
to their children. It is more than giving money. It is more than giving them
with education and character. When children possess grit they can acquire
everything including education, character and amazing success.
“Everyone has a talent. What is rare
is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.” ―Erica
Jong
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