Ep 457 – Building Grit in Kids These Days w/ Jim Davis

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Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

If you're a parent aiming to instill lessons of hard work or a coach fighting to develop a culture, this conversation is for you. Dig in as Good Athlete Project's Jim Davis joins Tex to open up and explore the application of Angela Duckworth’s key components of Grit: 1) sustained interest, 2) sustained effort; 3) long-term goals.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio featuring The Crew.
0:11.7	We're a former pro football player and a D3 All-Star use strength and conditioning as an excuse to talk about anything but.
0:18.7	Now here's John and Tex.
0:28.2	Power Athlete Nation.
0:29.6	What's happening?
0:32.4	I am here with Mr. Jim Davis.
0:34.1	What's up,
0:38.4	Hello, Power Athlete Radio alum, episode 242. And we have very targeted conversation and discussion.
0:41.6	We're getting after today.
0:44.2	John Wellborn is on a little vacation getaway.
0:47.3	I don't blame him.
0:48.2	It's about 30 degrees in Austin, Texas.
0:51.1	And he's taken to some warmer weather.
0:53.8	But I needed to get a conversation
0:57.4	rolling with my old pal Jim because he just posted a blog for power athlete hq.com, and it's all
1:04.6	about grit.
1:05.7	And while I'm sitting in this freezing barn talking about the weather, I'm developing what Jim would call grit. Jim,
1:13.3	how are you? I'm doing well, man. I really feel for you. I don't know if you know this,
1:19.3	but I'm in Chicago. I think you do know that. And it's about five degrees. So you're like, you're used
1:26.0	to it? Yeah, it is. I was born in humidity. I love humidity. People
1:30.9	complain about it, but I thrive in it. It holds my hair up. It's amazing. And if it drops to 30 degrees, I'm not a happy man. Not to mention my truck doesn't have heat, air conditioning, de-frost, any of that good stuff.
1:44.4	So I like to live dangerously.
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