In this instant NY Moments bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to achieve success that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses just about everywhere” (People).

The daughter of the scientist who frequently noted her insufficient “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business talking to, and neuroscience that led about Grit: The Power of Enthusiasm and Perseverance to her hypothesis about what actually drives success: not really genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term determination.

In Grit, she requires us in to the field to visit cadets struggling through their 1st days at Western world Point, teachers working in a number of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from background and displays what could be gleaned from modern experiments in peak functionality. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers-from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Mentor Pete Carroll.

“Duckworth’s ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better” (The New York Times Publication Review). Among Grit’s most effective insights: any effort you make eventually counts twice toward your goal; grit could be learned, irrespective of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high requirements will work on their own; how to trigger lifelong curiosity; the magic from the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is usually a book about what experiences your head when you collapse, and exactly how that-not talent or luck-makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on achievement” (The Wall Street Journal).