True Grit Effort

True Grit Effort

  

My first thought after watching the video was how I don’t even like the word “Grit”. I understand the meaning and the point they make is a good one but the word… it just rubs me the wrong way. I’m going to call it effort instead.

 My thoughts on education are that it is always for the long term. Sure, I think all of us have taken the odd class and right after said “I’ll never use that again.” Or “I won’t ever need that in life.” But at the end of the day if we put effort into our education even if it’s a class were not interested in. We will find valuable things that we can use in life just maybe not the way it was presented in class.

 What’s more important grades or learning? Well most of our parents will say our grades. “If you don’t get those grades up son your grounded!” Thankfully now as an older learner I value the opportunity to focus on learning.

 So, what does it take to learn? Some say it takes a high level of intelligence but as we learned in the Ted Talk “Grit” by Angela Lee Duckworth that is not the case.  In fact very intelligent students can fail because they aren’t “gritty” (I hate the word but know what she means) enough. It takes effort everyone! We can all learn anything we put our minds to, its all just effort. To learn requires a desire to learn just showing up and going through the motions won’t do it. So, let’s just make a decision to learn and then give it our best shot.