Bouncing Forwards: Notes on Resilience, Courage and Change by Patrick Regan & Liza Hoeksma

Author:Patrick Regan & Liza Hoeksma [Regan, Patrick & Hoeksma, Liza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Living, Religion, Mental Health
ISBN: 9781789513639
Google: pO81zgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1789513634
Publisher: Waverley Abbey Resources
Published: 2021-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

GRIT

Angela Duckworth is famous for developing research on grit; she wanted to see why some people succeeded in life and others didn’t. She says:

Grit isn’t talent. Grit isn’t luck. Grit isn’t how intensely, for the moment, you want something. Instead, grit is about having what some researchers call an ‘ultimate concern’—a goal you care about so much that it organizes and gives meaning to almost everything you do. And grit is holding steadfast to that goal. Even when you fall down. Even when you screw up. Even when progress toward that goal is halting or slow. Talent and luck matter to success. But talent and luck are no guarantee of grit. And in the very long run, I think grit may matter as least as much, if not more.’7

In Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, which talks about his experiences of being a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, he describes a key moment in his survival. He was considering whether to trade his last cigarette for a bowl of soup and how to work with one of the sadistic foremen when he realised how meaningless his life had become. Of course, he couldn’t escape or change his circumstances, but he realised what would help him survive was having purpose. He imagined himself giving a lecture once the war was finished, teaching on the psychology of the concentration camp to help others understand what it was like. He created concrete goals, even at a point when he didn’t know if he would live, to help him keep going in the worst circumstances.8 He said, ‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.’9 When we have a purpose, we find the grit that keeps us going.

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