This excerpt is from a YouTube video discussing the author’s view of "grit" as more than sheer hard work: persistence plus adapting methods and maintaining positivity. The speaker links grit to personal experiences overcoming hardships in collegiate and national team contexts to achieve success.
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And, you know, it comes with also grit that is like a huge proponent of, you know, grit, in my definition, is not necessarily about just, like, working hard and, like, grunging your way through it. It means that you have worked really hard, and if you still are not getting where you need to go in your journey, whether that's a success model, whether whether that's financially, whether that's a structural component, is that you are trying again and again and again finding those alternative methods of positivity of success.
And I think coming from said exposure to those hardships and those difficult times of the collegiate error and the national team error and whatnot, was you had to go through a lot of grit in order to, you know, find. Find that sort of success.