Developing grit in your activities is a combination of several things such as passion, practice, and a feeling a purpose with what you are doing says Angela Duckworth in Grit. When it comes to practice you canβt merely go through the motions. Practice must be deliberate if you want to improve and get to a state of flow at your task. Deliberate practice allows you to βexperience the thrill of getting better, and the ecstasy of performing at your best (137).β When you achieve these two aspects you are one step further in developing perseverance at your work.
So what is deliberate practice? Duckworth outlines three elements:
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