Why It’s Not Just Grit You Need to Succeed

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

There is no magic button or one single ingredient in the recipe for success. So often, grit has been attributed to much of the success that the elite in our society has experienced. But what if I told you that there was something else that could be key in the pursuit of your goals and dreams? What I am hinting at is this thing called willpower. Willpower is the yin to grit's yang. In this episode, I'm sharing how focusing too much on one thing can increase your risk of stress and anxiety, and the three simple things you can do to start flexing your willpower muscle.

What's In This Episode:

Avoiding getting caught up in the vicious cycle of grit

Using willpower to help you recover quickly from setbacks and maintain motivation in pursuit of your goals

Building up your willpower and grit without burning them out

3 simple ways to flex your willpower muscle

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity not just to do more, but to achieve what's truly important to you. And this season is all about you, U2.0. To learn more about yourself, take Tanya's free quiz and discover your own productivity style at
0:21.3	Tanya Dalton.com. And now get ready. Here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello everyone. Welcome
0:29.9	to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 168. Why, it's not just grit you need to succeed. You see, all this
0:41.9	season, we have been talking about the idea of U2.0, making some changes in our lives that will
0:47.9	help bring us closer and closer to our ideal version of who it is we want to be. So today, I want to dive into what is often the
0:56.2	elephant in the room when we think about a certain level of success. And that is the concept of
1:03.2	grit. Grit, grittiness, mental toughness. It's become a word that seems to come into the limelight a lot more lately.
1:13.6	Grit's one of those things that's been attributed for much of the success that the elite in our
1:18.8	society have experienced. Besides sheer talent in any given area, grit is often held up as the
1:26.0	stuff that most successful people are made of.
1:29.3	You know, you've seen it, those things on Instagram and Facebook that say things like
1:34.0	hustle, rinse, repeat, or keep calm and hustle on.
1:39.0	Oh, I hate that stuff.
1:41.4	It makes me crazy because that idea that you just need to muscle through or
1:47.3	that we just need to be stronger or we need to keep going until we just wear ourselves out to be
1:53.5	a success, it's just not true. But it's treated like it's this magic ingredient to get us to the life that we want.
2:03.5	The one little key we need to unlock all the doors that have been shut to us.
2:09.4	Grit.
2:10.5	I feel like I've come across more articles, more posts from people glorifying the importance of having grit all the time lately. And I get it,
2:21.0	we're kind of obsessed with the idea. Somewhere along the line, we have convinced ourselves that if only
2:28.4	we had more grit, if only we were tougher or more thick-skinned, we could handle the road before us.
2:35.8	Somehow, if we just had more grit all of our existing problems, at least those surrounding
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tanya Dalton, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tanya Dalton and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.