Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Books.

Today we are reviewing none other than Angela Duckworth's book,

Grit. This is published by Simon & Schuster and it totally blew me away.

So, mad shout out to you guys, Simon & Schuster.

This one is brilliant. It really, really covers some powerful concepts

about what it is that actually separates people that end up being successful

from people that had all the talent in the world, but didn't really go on to do anything with it.

Alright, the first thing we have to cover is what is Grit?

Grit has two parts, passion and perseverance.

It's the ability to find the thing that will sustain your interest even when it gets hard and boring.

To paraphrase Duckworth, it's about both falling in love and staying in love over the long run.

And that's a really important concept that she goes into great detail about.

Alright, this book has countless powerful takeaways that I think for anyone who opens themselves up to being changed,

will really have a tremendous impact on you, but I've broken it down into the three most important

Alright, take away number one. Grit is about stamina.

You have to view your life as a marathon and not a sprint.

You guys have heard me talk about that before and she breaks it down in the book.

Very powerfully is to why that's the case.

The difference between willingness to work hard and grit. They're not the same.

And that was one of those things that kind of caught me off guard because to be honest,

as somebody who prides himself on working hard, I really did see them as one and the same.

And she teases them apart and shows how they're two distinct,

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