Meta: How gritty are you?

I was listening to a leadership seminar this afternoon. The speaker started discussing why people of similar IQ can have different career outcomes or results. His explanation for this mentioned two important trends:

• *Attention to grit
• Attention to star performers

Obviously, the first item caught my attention. The asterisk was for a note at the bottom of the slide that read, "*Take the grit assessment at https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter.

Go to about halfway down that page and you will see a link to test your grit. (All this time, I thought all I had to do was look in the mirror to determine my grit.)

After creating an account and taking the test (how gritty is that?) I got the following feedback:

Grit is perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Our research suggests that grittier individuals accomplish very difficult challenges – see http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/research.htm for more information.

Thank you for your kind contribution to this research.

Jun 21, 2017

Score Range : 1 to 5

 

The Grit Survey : 4.75

That grit score of 4.75 puts me in the top 98% of gritty people.