4. Grit and resilience

Build Your Grit and Resilience

Professor Angela Duckworth defines Grit as your ability to pursue your goals with passion and perseverance as if they are a marathon, not a sprint. Grit, she argues, is more important to your success than your intellect or IQ.

Likewise, the qualities of resilience and patience are essential contributors to success, especially in the face of adversity.

By definition, most careers are bound to face difficulties and disappointments at some point along the way

Your ability to handle these adversities, conflicts, distractions, and disappointments, will determine your success in the long run

Building your grit, resilience, and patience is one of the most important things you can do for your career

Developing Your Grit and Resilience

Here are things you can do to develop your grit, resilience, and patience:

1. Like with all other leadership qualities, you first have decide that you are willing to commit to do whatever it takes to  build your grit, resilience, and patience with self-discipline and persistence.

2. Then develop your self-awareness of the level of grit, resilience, and patience you demonstrate. Identify the reasons that make you switch course, not stick with your original goal, and the type of situations that test your resilience and make you want to flee rather than to fight.

3. Adopt a Growth Mindset*. Understand that your capabilities and behaviors are not fixed, and that they will grow through mindful deliberate and repeated practice.

4. Consult your trusted mentor and your coach. He or she may offer an objective perspective that may persuade you to fight rather than to flee.

5. Reward yourself when you achieve milestones along your journey and when you have demonstrated your resilience and patience. This will help you strengthen your grit, resilience, and patience.

* Growth Mindset – Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford University.

In this module you will learn how to:

a. Boost your ability to pursue your long term goals with grit (i.e. passion and perseverance)

b. Adopt a Growth Mindset

c. Recognize when your resilience and patience are being tested

c. Act with resilience and patience in testing situations

d. Wisely choose your responses: fight, lay low, or flee

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