The Key to Success Response

This post is in response to "Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit."Posted on TED's YouTube channel. The theme in this video is all about grit. The definition of grit is this: courage and resolve; strength of character. Angela wanted to find out what the common occurrence between kids who succeed or go farther in their studies, versus kids who don’t. She took in different types of data from completely different sources and found one thing in common; Kids with a strong sense of perseverance and courage (or grit) would strive farther than those who don’t, or even those who have natural talent. This makes complete sense, simply because if you want to gain something out of anything you must put time and effort into it. In the book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell says, "it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field." I believe that you are not going to get that by sitting on the couch; watching TV all day. The key to your success isn't in anyone but yourself, you have to make the choice to keep writing, drawing, singing, working and studying.