I have recently been reading a book titled “Outliers” by
Malcolm Gladwell. In the book he talks about how people who appear to be
exceptional achieve this success through a combination of small advantages. You
can read the book yourself to find what are all the small things that we don’t notice
which combined give people an unassailable edge.
One of the main points made was that IQ is not a good
predictor of success. Sure, some level of intelligence is required but it alone
is insufficient to attain success. In the book, Malcolm claims that it is a
combination of IQ and family background which leads to success. I was initially
taken aback by this. There are many people who at least at first glance appear
to have attained success from nothing. After all, every advantage must begin
from somewhere.
This is where I watched a TED video on Grit. In it the
presenter talks about how this one quality appears to be the one quality which
is a universal requirement for success. It is defined as:
The tendency to work
strenuously towards challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years
despite failure, adversity and plateaus in progress.
Do you think you have Grit?
If you do the sky is the limit!
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